Dr. Hoi-Chung Leung
Undergraduate Courses
Psy 250 Survey in Biopsychology (click here to see the Syllabus for Spring 2008)
Overview: This course surveys the relationship between brain function and behavior. The course content covers three primary areas: (1) neuroanatomy and neural signal transmission, (2) sensory and motor neural systems, and (3) selected topics in neuroscience, with the purpose of illustrating how the brain influences complex behaviors. The reading load is moderately heavy for this course, and students lacking the appropriate background in science (e.g., elementary biology, chemistry) may have to do additional reading to ameliorate their deficiencies.
Psy 355 Human Brain Function (click here to see the Syllabus for Spring 2011)
Overview: The main focus of this course is on understanding some of the key empirical findings and current theories regarding human brain function. We will first go over some basics on neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology and current approaches/methodologies, and then the following areas: (1) visual perception, (2) learning and memory, (3) emotion and social cognition, and (4) cognitive control.
Undergraduate Research (Psych 273 and 487)
This course is for students who are interested research, especially those intend to go to graduate school.
Advance undergraduates are encouraged to participate in the Honors Thesis Program in Psychology.
Graduate course
Cognitive Neuroscience seminar (click here to see the Syllabus for Spring 2007)
Overview: This seminar course is a survey of current research findings, theories, and empirical approaches towards theunderstanding of the role of prefrontal cortex network in cognition. The aim of this course is to discuss how one might investigate the neural basis of higher-order cognitive functions (with a focus on memory and executive functions) and to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the cognitive neuroscience approaches.