Neuroscience

Before you begin, this unit teaches Neurons and glia, Membrane gradients, Resting potential, Action potentials, Synaptic transmission. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Excitation and inhibition, Myelin and conduction, Central and peripheral systems, Sensory coding, Motor control. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Plasticity and timescale, Memory systems, Retrieval and spacing, Attention and limited resources, Reward and prediction error. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Stress and context, Reading a brain image, Correlation and intervention, Reverse inference, Evaluate a neuroscience headline. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Synaptic integration is a spatiotemporal computation, Inhibition changes responsiveness, not only voltage, Center–surround fields encode contrast, Population codes and ambiguous single-cell responses, NMDA-dependent potentiation: induction versus expression. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Hippocampal indexing: a model across explanatory levels, BOLD, local field potentials, and what a signal measures, Necessity, sufficiency, and competing causal pathways, Reverse inference requires selectivity and a comparison set, Build a multi-level evidence argument without overclaiming. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Release probability, quantal size, and how a synapse reports uncertainty, The postsynaptic side: receptor complement, driving force, and excitatory-inhibitory balance, Plasticity runs both ways: depression, synaptic scaling, and metaplasticity, Consolidation, reactivation, and reconsolidation: the standard model and its disputes, Sleep, oscillations, and memory: the active consolidation hypothesis and its limits. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Transduction and adaptation: turning physical energy into spike trains, Motor units, loops, and error correction: how the nervous system produces movement, Autonomic control and homeostasis: reflex loops, feedback, and the limits of a set point, Electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography: millisecond timing with blurred location, Functional imaging, lesions, and causal inference: choosing a method that can bear the claim. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Cortical maps and topographic organisation: what a map claim requires, How experience wires circuits: pruning, critical periods, and two kinds of plasticity, Dopamine: prediction error, effort, and why 'the pleasure molecule' is a misreading, Stress physiology and its cumulative effects on brain and body, Sleep as a controlled system: two processes, arousal circuits, and what sleep changes. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Language and its lateralisation: dissociations, networks, and the limits of left-right claims, Executive function and the limits of grey-matter claims, The biology of habit: goal-directed and habitual control, Reading a neuroscience headline: correlation, causation, and replication, Capstone: appraising a causal claim about the brain, from design to headline. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches The visual system as a worked example of hierarchical processing, Hearing: how the auditory system extracts pitch and location, Touch: mechanoreceptors, submodalities and two rival coding schemes, Pain is a constructed signal, not a direct readout of tissue damage, Vestibular and proprioceptive sense of self-position. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Movement is planned before it is executed, Interoception and the immune-to-brain conversation, How the brain regulates temperature, hunger and thirst, Circadian biology beyond sleep: an internal clock that times many systems, Capstone: is the brain a computer, and where does the metaphor break?. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches What a skill is, neurally: components, stages and why 'the skill area' is a category error, Training-induced change and everyday plasticity claims are different kinds of evidence, Critical periods revisited: what vision and language evidence actually constrains, Adolescent brain development: what the imaging shows, and what the 'immature brake' story adds, Ageing: separating normal cognitive change from disease, and why the boundary is a measurement decision. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Memory reconsolidation: the biology, the boundary conditions, and why the debate is unresolved, Attention as selection, and what the evidence about media multitasking actually shows, Habit and intention: two control systems, how they interact, and what 'habit' does not mean, Pharmacological and behavioural interventions: what each kind of trial can and cannot show, Capstone: evaluating a commercial brain-training claim end to end. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.