Neur0014 Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Notes and additional reading for the module including textbook notes, assigned reading, and extended reading. Evidence and research papers allocated in tables (note, not all research papers are described, but titles and authors are provided as references). Broken down into chapters and subchapters. Add a table of contents if downloaded to simplify structure. Note it does not include ALL lectures and the syllabus is from 2021.

The Hippocampus & Spatial Cognition (Lecture 3 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the hippocampus as it relates to spatial cognition, including place cells, head-direction cells and grid cells.

Hippocampus & Memory (Lecture 5 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the role of the hippocampus in memory, including the Standard Consolidation Model, oppositions to this model and the proposed neural bases of memory consolidation, storage and recall.

Hypothalamus (Lecture 2 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the hypothalamus as it relates to behavioural control, including ingestive and affiliative (parental and pair bonding) behaviours

Orbitofrontal Cortex: Emotion, Learning & Value (Lecture 12 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the proposed functions of the orbitofrontal cortex including the somatic marker hypothesis, response inhibition and the encoding of value and expected reward - and evidence to disprove some of these theories! The orbitofrontal cortex is a very important brain area in the field of neuroeconomics - but how do we know this, and what neural basis underpins ...

The Amygdala Complex (Lecture 16 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning). Thorough review of the amygdala complex and its relationship with learning, motivation and emotion. Exerpt: "The pervasive use of the fear conditioning paradigm in rodents has meant that, for many years the amygdala was thought of as the brain’s ‘fear’ module. Accumulating evidence, from patient data, lesion studies in non-human primates and single neuron recordings convincingly paints a ...

Adult Neurogenesis and the Dentate Gyrus (Lecture 6 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus in both mammals and humans, and how this relates to memory storage and recall.

Basal Ganglia (Lecture 10 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the basal ganglia as it relates to learning of behaviours. Traditionally thought to support procedural learning (i.e. habit formation), more recent research supports the basal ganglia to play a role in both goal-oriented (dorso-medial striatum) and habitual (dorso-lateral striatum) behaviour.

The Role of Dopamine in Learning (Lecture 9 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Through review of dopamine as it relates to learning, reward and motivation, including the hedonia hypothesis, incentive salience theory and reward contiguity, contingency and prediction error.

The Anterior Cingulate Cortex (Lecture 13 of 16 in NEUR0014: Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning) Thorough review of the functions of the anterior cingulate cortex, including autonomic processing, pain processing, and some proposed cognitive functions (e.g. error and conflict processing, reward and strategy shifting).