Biology: Sensory Biology

Education facts

Code: BIOR20

<p>BIOR20</p><p>The course deals with vision and other types of photoreception, olfaction, taste, hearing, equilibrium, mechanoreception, pressure reception, electroreception, magnetoreception and senses for temperature and heat radiation. All senses are studied comparatively across the animal kingdom. A range of methods in physiology, ethology and human psychophysics are taught and used during the course.</p>

Entry requirements

For admission to course is required 90 credits scientific studies, including knowledge equivalent to BIOA10 Cell and Microbiology 15 credits, BIOA11 Genetics and Evolution 15 credits, BIOB13/BIOC11 Human and Animal Physiology 15 credits or BIOB10 Zoology and Botany 15 credits, and chemistry 15 credits. English 6/English B.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Biology: Sensory Biology

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %