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Learning and Memory OpenCourseWare: MIT's Free Undergraduate Course on Cognitive Neuroscience

Published Feb 06, 2009

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This Brain and Cognitive Sciences course is for students who are interested in how cells and molecules collect and store information and how they interact so that mammals (including humans) can function in a complex environment. 'Neural Basis of Learning and Memory' is one of many free, self-study Neuroscience classes offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at a level intended for undergraduate students.

Neural Basis of Learning and Memory: Course Specifics

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Neural Basis of Learning and Memory: Course Description

To fully understand how humans and other mammals store information in their brains, undergraduate Neuroscience students study mammal behaviors, learning strategies and memory storage and release. While taking this free online course relevant to a Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, they look at how storage of facts is different from storage of experiences, how physical action strengthens memory retention and how the brain processes predictions and inferences. Then they look at how all these processes change over a lifetime. 'Neural Basis of Learning and Memory' was taught through a series of lectures by MIT professors Suzanne Corkin and Matt Wilson. This nerve biology course has one required text, and the recommended reading assignments are divided up according to the topics covered in each lecture.

The 'Neural Basis of Learning and Memory' OpenCourseWare includes a selection of lecture notes, presentation guidelines, study notes, web resource links and a bibliography of published primary research papers. If you would like to learn about learning with this Neuroscience course, visit this memory and learning course page.

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