Topics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences Human Ethology

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LEC #	TOPICS
1	Introduction Organization, Readings, Projects Approaches to the Study of Humans and Their Behavior
2	Classics, Key Concepts in Ethology
3	Key Concepts in Sociobiology
4	Key Concepts in Learning
5	Social Status and Cross-cultural Differences
6	Persuasion: Advertising, Politics
7	Self–Individual, Social, Other Adaptations
8	Sexuality Dimorphisms in Body and Behavior, Social Organization, Dominance Structures, Evolution of Sexual Signals, Emancipation from Original Uses
9	Mating and Reproduction
10	Emotion and Facial Expression
11	General Non-verbal Communication
12	Social vs. Solitary, Specialized vs. Generalized/Non-specialized
13	Sex Differences
14	Computer Simulation of Behavior
15	Machine Interfaces
16	Art, Music and Dance
17	Human Ethology in Clinical and Laboratory Research
18	Cognitive Ethology/Comparative Cognition
19	Signs and Symbols
20	Behavioral Modification: Pharmacology and Toxicology
21	Project Reports