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This half-semester course will delve into how the brain encodes and controls movement. The emphasis in this course is on the theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches that provide the basis of our understanding of how we interact with the world. Lectures will focus on the neural circuits underlying sensorimotor transformations, population coding, motor learning and plasticity, decision-making, functional brain imaging, brain stimulation, and brain machine interfacing. Students will compare neural imaging techniques. The course will be supplemented with visits to medical campus labs and critical analysis of current literature.