Areas of Concentration: Neuroscience and Behavior
This area seeks to research the biology of behavior, that is, the biochemical and physiological phenomena that enable contact between the various parts of the organism and its homeostasis, the contact between the organism and the immediate environment in time and space, and changes in organism that sustain changes in sensitivity and reactivity in phylogenesis and ontogenesis.
It aims at the knowledge of the complex behavioral functions for which the phylogenetically endowed physiological mechanisms are the basis for the constitution, in ontogeny, of a modifiable organism, sensitive to environmental pressures elaborated from the simplest and immediate levels to the most complex and dependent on neural functions higher, dependent on historical, symbolic and cultural evolution.
Research Line:
Basic Behavioral Processes
Neurobiological bases of behavior. Perception and attention. Principles of behavior. Stimulus control. Symbolic behavior properties. Development of behavioral technology.
Professors: Ana Leda de Faria Brino, Bruno Duarte Gomes, Eliã Pinheiro Botelho, Fernando Allan de Faias Rocha, Givago da Silva Souza, Olavo de Faria Galvão, Paulo Roney Hilpp Goulart, Silene Maria Araújo de Lima.
Research Line:
Complex Behavioral Processes
Neurobiological bases of complex behavior. Evolution of species. Phylogenetic, ontogenetic, social and cultural variables involved in adapting cognitive behavior to the demands of the environment. Principles of communication. Learning in the presence and absence of the verbal environment. Development of behavioral technology.
Professors: Alda Loureiro Henriques, Carla Cristina Paiva Paracampo, Hellen Vivianni Veloso Corrêa, Júlio Cesar Coelho de Rose, Luiz Carlos de Albuquerque, Maria Luisa da Silva, Mauro Dias Silva Junior, Rachel Coêlho Ripardo Teixeira, Regina Celia Souza Brito