ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Psychobiology
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1- To know the Objective of Discipline Study, its Definition, their Historical Antecedents.
2- To understand the main Methods and Research Techniques used in Behavioural Neuroscience.
3- To know the Neuro-functional Bases of the Sensorial and Motor Systems.
4- To understand the Activation Mechanisms of Sleep and Vigil.
5- To know which are the main Documentary Sources of the Subject.
In all cases the Student should:
6- Get a Complete View of the Approach that from the Behavioural Neuroscience is made in Psychology, their assumptions, the Contribution of their main Authors, the Advantages of this Approach and also their Limitations.
Theoretical Programme
Unit 1: Introduction to Behavioural Neuroscience (4 h.)
1.1 Conceptual Delimitation of the Discipline and Relation with other similar.
1.2 Historical Antecedents.
1.3 Main Methods and Research Techniques in Behavioural Neuroscience.
Unit 2: Somesthesia and Pain (5 h.)
2.1 General Introduction to the Sensorial Systems.
2.2 Receivers and Somatic Sensations.
2.3 Transduction and Codification.
2.4 Ways and Centres.
2.5 Pain and Analgesia.
Unit 3: Hearing System (5 h.)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Structural Description of Hearing.
3.3 Receiving Cells and Hearing Transduction.
3.4 Codification of Frequency and the Sound Intensity.
3.5 Location of the Sound.
3.6 Ways and Hearing Centres.
3.7 Hearing Disorders.
3.8 Vestibular System.
Unit 4: Chemical Senses (2 h.)
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Olfaction
4.3. Gustation
Unit 5: Vision (6 h.)
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Anatomic and Functional Description of the Eye.
5.3 Ways, Centres and Visual Cortex.
5.4 The Visual Transduction.
5.5 Vision of the Shape, Movement and Depth.
5.6 Colour Vision.
5.7 Main Visual Disorders.
Unit 6: Motor System (6 h.)
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 The Muscle and their Receivers.
6.3 Motor Functions of Spinal Cord and Cerebral Stem.
6.4 Superior Control of the Movement: the motor cortex.
6.5 Motor Functions of Basal Ganglia. Disorders associated.
6.6 Motor Functions of the Cerebellum. Disorders associated.
6.7 Plasticity and Motor Learning.
Unit 7: Activation, Sleep and Vigil (6 h.)
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Activation and Biological Rhythms.
7.3 Physiological Characterization of Sleep.
7.4 Neuro-physiological Mechanisms of Sleep and Vigil.
7.5 Sleep Functions.
7.6 Sleep Disorders.
Practice Programme
The Behavioural Neuroscience practices will be compulsory and it will realize in modules of approximately 90 minutes. The students must go necessarily the day and the hour in which the group is convened and that they were named by the Faculty. EXCEPCIONALLY, students could change the group, if previously authorized by the corresponding profesor.
For this Course, the Next Practices that will take place (more detailed information about places and times will be posted before the start of classes on the Virtual Campus - Moodle platform):
1- Seminar of Methods and Techniques: Practice Assumptions
2- Strategies of Searching Scientific Information in Behavioral Neuroscience. Part I. Use of scientific databases
3-Strategies of Searching Scientific Information in Behavioural Neuroscience. Part II. References management software
4.- Formative assessment and problem solving activities
5- Visual and Hearing System: Manage of Templates and Laminations.
6- Record of data in cronobiology
7- Record of psychophysiological signs: EMG, EOG y EEG.
8- Processing and analysis of psychophysiological signs: polysomnography.
9.- Formative assessment II
10.- Sleep disorders: practical cases
Recommended Handbook:
CARLSON, N.R., BIRKETT, M.A. (2018). Fisiología de la conducta. 12ª Edición. Madrid: Pearson Education (also previous editions could be used).
An online version of the handbook is available in the library.
General bibliography
1. ALLMAN, J.M. (2003). El cerebro en evolución. Barcelona: Ariel.
2. BEAR, M.F., CONNORS, B.W. e PARADISO, M.A. (2008). Neurociencia: la exploración del cerebro, 3ªed. Barcelona: Wolters Kluwer.
3. DE ABRIL ALONSO, A., AMBROSIO FLORES, E., BLAS CALLEJA, M.R., CAMINERO GÓMEZ, A. A., GARCÍA LECUMBERRI, C. E PABLO GONZÁLEZ, J.M. (2009) Fundamentos de Psicobiología. Madrid: Sanz y Torres.
4. KANDEL, E.R. SCHWARTZ, J.H. e JESSELL, T.M. (2001). Principios de neurociencia. Madrid: McGraw Hill/Interamericana.
5. MORGADO, I. (2005). Psicobiología de los genes a la cognición y el comportamiento. Barcelona: Ariel.
5. PURVES, D. et al. (2007). Neurociencia. Madrid: Panamericana.
6. PINEL, J.P.J. (2007) Biopsicología. Madrid: Pearson Educación.
7. REDOLAR, D. (2023) Neurociencia cognitiva (2ª edición). Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana.
8. ROSENZWEIG, M.R., BREEDLOVE, M. e WATSON, N.V. (2005). Psicobiología: Una introducción a la Neurociencia Conductual, Cognitiva y Clínica. Barcelona: Ariel.
A specific bibliography will be given for each of the topics, including some of the texts from the general bibliography, specialised articles in this field and particularly interesting internet addresses (links to video and other resources). It will also indicate some recommended readings for the subject.
Competences related to knowledge (knowing) that we intend to promote through matter are:
1. know and understand the functions, features, contributions and limitations of various theoretical models of the psychology
2. knowing the basic laws of the different psychological processes.
3. know the biological basis of human behavior and psychological functions.
Competences related to abilities and skills (know how) that encourage are:
1. Identify the relevant features of the behavior of individuals, groups, organizations and contexts through methods, techniques and tools of psychological assessment.
2. Promote health and quality of life, through the methods of the profession in individuals, groups, communities and organizations in different areas and contexts: educational, clinical and health, work and organizations, group and community.
3. Select and manage their own specific techniques and instruments of Psychology
Teaching Methodology
For the exposition of the themes, the use of audiovisual media is used (Power Point presentations, internet). Prior to the start of a theme, all the necessary documentation will be delivered through the "MOODLE" platform in the virtual classroom.
In general, in the first class, the topic will be presented and its most relevant aspects will be highlighted. At the beginning of each of the following classes dedicated to the topic, a brief recapitulation of the most significant aspects of the previous class will be made. At the end of each topic, a summary of the most relevant aspects will be made.
For the practical classes we will use a computer room and two laboratories equipped with the necessary means for the programmed activities.
Finally, and in order to support the face-to-face activity, the subject will have other tools from the "MOODLE" platform of the virtual campus. The Virtual Campus will also be used to communicate all the latest news on the subject, which is why it is very important for students to check their USC e-mail address.
The theoretical part accounts for 70% of the grade and depends on the grade obtained in the 40 questions of the final theoretical examination. This exam will be of type test format with five options (corrected according to the formula hits-errors/4) being necessary to obtain a 5 out of 10 so that it can be added to the note of the practical part. If the student does not pass, the official recording will be that of the theoretical exam on 10.
The practical part accounts for 30% of the grade for the subject. The 20% will be obtained by attending/participating in the practicals, submitting the associated reports, and/or taking tests, preferably through the Moodle or Microsoft Forms platforms. The remaining 10% for the practical part of the final exam. In order to pass the subject, it will be compulsory to have done all the practicals. As a margin of tolerance, two absences are allowed provided that there is a duly justified cause.
For the practice program, it is NOT POSIBLE to obtain exemption from attendance.
The pass mark in the internship (1.5 out of 3) obtained in the three previous years will be maintained for the academic year 2023-2024.
Complementary activities reflected in the evaluation. In this area we have been collaborating with the library of the Faculty of Psychology in teaching the online course Competences in Information. Basic level. The students who pass this course will receive a compensation of 0.2 points in their grade (added once approved to the subject), only in the year in which it is carried out or course. 0.2 points can also be obtained for the completion of the practical cases that are raised in the 1st part of the subject (Moodle workshop tool).
The mark for the practical part + complementary activities cannot exceed 3 points.
- Expositive Presence Hours: 35 h.
- Interactive Presence Hours: 15 h.
- Individual tutoring 1 h.
- Personal Work Hours: 104 h.
- To study it according to the Development of the Programme.
- Regular Attendance to the Theoretical and Practices Classes.
- Active Implication in the Dynamics of Class.
- Use of the Tutorships.
Tutorship time:
Mª Teresa Carrillo: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11.30 to 14.30 h. Room number 62. Module A. E-mail: mteresa.carrillo [at] usc.es (mteresa[dot]carrillo[at]usc[dot]es)
Fernando Cadaveira: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12.00 to 14.00 h. Room number 60. Module A. E-mail: fernando.cadaveira [at] usc.es (fernando[dot]cadaveira[at]usc[dot]es)
Paula Pazo Álvarez: Tuesdays from 16:00 to 19:00 h and Fridays from 11:30 to 14:30 h. Room number 57. Módulo A. E-mail: paula.pazo [at] usc.es (paula[dot]pazo[at]usc[dot]es)
It is recommended to send a message beforehand to arrange a tutorship. Online tutorships are available.
Language: The Expositive Classes and Practices will be given in Galician or Spanish language.
Coordinator of matter for this course is Fernando Cadaveira Mahía. For questions relating to a particular unit or practice, first contact person is the teacher responsible for the unit or practice.
In the case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións"
María Teresa Carrillo De La Peña
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813798
- mteresa.carrillo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Fernando Cadaveira Mahía
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813797
- fernando.cadaveira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Paula Pazo Álvarez
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813682
- paula.pazo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Sabela Conde Pumpido Zubizarreta
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- sabela.condepumpido.zubizarreta [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
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