Learning and Memory

NEWSLETTER AND REMINDERS

Excel spreadsheet: I have posted the grade sheet for the course, with columns for the various assignments from the syllabus. If you click on the grade sheet link, Excel should open the worksheet. You can then enter your grades as assignments are returned, and see your points add up. Or, you can enter the full point value for each assignment, substitute your actual score as assignments are returned, and see your points subtract down. Your choice.

Discussion folder:

To find the posted discussion folder for the class, open Outlook.
Then, go to the folder list on the left side of your screen. (If it is missing, click the File menu and select Folder list.
Scroll to the bottom of the folder list to find Public Folders, and click the plus sign.
Click the plus signs beside each of the following, in order:
All Public Folders...Academic...Classes...Young P.
Click on Learn01, and you are into the folder. Please read the first message from me, and reply.
To read any message in the folder, double-click it.
To reply, click the Post Reply button; type your message; and click the Post button.
To post a new message rather than a reply, click on the folder. Then click New on the Outlook toolbar at the top of the page, type your message, and click Post.

Helpful hint:

Click on Learn01 and drag it up the folder list to Favorites, to eliminate most of the above searching steps in the future. But don't drag it anywhere else.

Archive of old assignments

March 5: Here is a news story on a brand new study of dopamine as a reinforcer in the nucleus accumbens of the hypothalamus. It claims that dopamine may be one step in the reinforcement process, but that it does not maintain ongoing reinforcement after the initial surge. Other neurotransmitters may be responsible for different parts of reinforcement.

Feb. 9: Here is a fascinating, short article on learning and memory in E. coli bacteria. An accompanying animation may help you visualize the changes in motion described in the article.

BENEFITS

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This page first posted January 9, 1998. Last updated on 10 January, 2001.