McMaster University will continue to host undergraduate academic activities remotely for the Spring/Summer/Intersession term with only a few exceptions for courses that need student access to specialized equipment.
Our systems and behavioural neurosciences researchers focus on the question of how the brain works, one of the great questions in scientific exploration. Perception, cognition, learning, memory, reasoning, emotion and other aspects of psychological functioning depend on the communication that occurs among the brain's neurons. Behavioural neuroscientists study the relationships of behaviour and what happens in the brain, with the goal of understanding the neural bases of psychological and behavioural responses. Systems and behavioural neuroscientists study behavioural mechanisms using techniques ranging from recording of activity in single neurons to imaging activity in the human brain.