Course title
Q04503003
Sensory and Motor Systems

 yoshimura kenjiro Click to show questionnaire result at 2019
Course description
For designing machines and software for human use, it is important to know how human feel and use them. The elaborate mechanisms of the sensors and motile machineries that various living organisms have accumulated during evolution are full of clues for designing novel things. In this class, you will learn the basics of the human senses including vision, mechanical sense, and chemical sense along with the mechanisms how vertebrates and invertebrates perceive information for the environment. You will study a broad range of motile machineries from macroscopic system such as muscles to molecular system of cell and intracellular motility.
Purpose of class
The aim of this class is to understand the sensory and motile mechanisms in various organisms, to comprehend the elaborate survival tactics, and to obtain clues to manufacturing.
Goals and objectives
  1. I can explain the basic mechanisms for human sensation.
  2. I can explain the basic structure and mechanism for muscle, a motile machinery in living organisms
  3. I can explain some sensors and motile machinery in various living organisms.
Language
Japanese(English accepted)
Class schedule

 Class schedule HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) Amount of Time Required
1. General principles of animal sense Review using handout 190minutes
2. Sensory coding and adaptation to stimuli Review using handout 190minutes
3. Various types of vision in invertebrates Review using handout 190minutes
4. Vertebrate vision I: photoreception Review using handout 190minutes
5. Vertebrate vision II: signal processing Review using handout 190minutes
6. Olfaction and taste Review using handout 190minutes
7. Mechanoreception by hair cells: hearing, sense of balance, and sense of acceleration Review using handout 190minutes
8. Mechanoreception in various living organisms Review using handout 190minutes
9. Generation and perseption of electric field in electric fish Review using handout 190minutes
10. Thermoreception Review using handout 190minutes
11. Vertebrate muscle I: structure and force production Review using handout 190minutes
12. Vertebrate muscle II: mechanical properties and function Review using handout 190minutes
13. Invertebrate muscle Review using handout 190minutes
14. Final exam and discussion Review using handout 190minutes
Total. - - 2660minutes
Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

 Quiz mid exam final exam Total.
1. 3% 15% 15% 33%
2. 3% 15% 15% 33%
3. 4% 15% 15% 34%
Total. 10% 45% 45% -
Evaluation method and criteria
Evaluation is based on quiz and final exam.
Students who can explain correctly 60% of the key words related to the "Goals and Objectives" will get a grade of 60.
Textbooks and reference materials
Textbook: Physics in Biology and Medicine, 4th edition, Paul Davidovits
Prerequisites
Those who did not study biology in high school can understand this class. Those who studied biology in high school can obtain new viewpoints and deeper understanding.
Office hours and How to contact professors for questions
  • Anytime after appointment through e-mail (Kenjiro Yoshimura, kenjiroy@shibaura-it.ac.jp)
Regionally-oriented
Non-regionally-oriented course
Development of social and professional independence
  • Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
  • Course that cultivates a basic problem-solving skills
Active-learning course
More than one class is interactive
Course by professor with work experience
Work experience Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable
N/A N/A
Education related SDGs:the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 3.GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 13.CLIMATE ACTION
  • 14.LIFE BELOW WATER
  • 15.LIFE ON LAND
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