All of the original modules on this site (identified by icons with light-green borders) are listed here by category.


Experiment

Beginner Level

1. Spatial Learning in Rats with Damaged Hippocampi
2. Memory: Our First Reflex
3. Short-Term Memory: Up to Seven Items, But Highly Volatile
4. A Protocol for Functional Brain Mapping by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography
5. Proving That the Periphery of the Retina Is More Sensitive to Light
6. The Blind Spot
7. The Language Abilities of the Fetus

Intermediate Level

1. Place Cells in the Mouse Hippocampus
2. The Effect of an Enriched Environment on Memory
3. Identifying the Brain Structures Involved in Conditioned Fear
4. Neuropsychologists Show How Emotions Contribute to Cognition and Decision making
5. How the Brain Keeps Information from the Left and Right Eyes Separate
6. What Split Brains Tell Us About Language
7. Attempts To Teach Language to Primates
8. Acupuncture and the Placebo Effect

Advanced Level

1. Inducing Long-Term Potentiation Experimentally
2. Confirming the Role of an Ion, Secondary Messenger, or Enzyme in Long-Term Potentiation
3. Specificity and Associativity of Long-Term Potentiation
4. Activity Pattern of Neurons in the Motor Cortex of Monkeys
5.
Effects of Visual Deprivation During the Critical Period for Development of Vision

 

History

Beginner Level

1. The Long History of the Culture of Fear in the United States
2. When the History of Science Sheds Light on the Philosophy of Mind
3. Dr. Alois Alzheimer's First Cases

Intermediate Level

1. The Quest for the “Emotional Brain”
2. The Quest for a Theory of the Emotions
3. Hominization, or The History of the Human Lineage
4. The Expansion of the Hominid Brain
5. The Growth of New Neurons in the Adult Human Brain
6.
The Devastating Effects of Isolation on Social Behaviour
7. The Anatomical Traces of the Emergence of Language During Hominization
8. How Biological Clock Genes Were First Discovered in Fruit Flies

Tool

Beginner Level

1. Primatology
2. Managing Stress
3. Scientific Research on Emotions
4. Treating Anxiety Disorders
5. Brodmann's Cortical Areas
6. Resilience
7. Sleep in Other Animals

Intermediate Level

1. Three Major Social Theories
2. History as a Scientific Discipline
3. Identifying Pathways in the Brain
4. Two Classic Mnemonic Devices
5. Human Memory versus Computer Memory
6. Cybernetics
7. Can Studying Human Feelings Help Us To Understand Emotions?
8. What Is Evolution?
9. Gradual Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria?
10. Darwin's Natural Selection
11. Sexual Selection and the Theory of Parental Investment
12. The Connection between Ontogeny and Phylogeny
13. Brain Imaging
14. Anxiety Disorders and Psychoanalysis: Extinguishing Conditioned Fears by "Rewiring" the Brain
15. The Hand
16. Optics
17. Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
18. Sign Language
19. Using Wada's Test To Identify the Dominant Hemisphere for Language
20. Different Types of Bilingualism
21. The Human Vocal Apparatus
22. Lucid Dreaming
23. The Possible Functions of Sleep
24. Sleep Regulation and Circadian Rythms : A Two-Process Model
25. Similarities and Differences Between the Brain and a Computer
28. Anesthesics and Analgesics
29. Ethical Issues Raised by the Placebo Effect
30. The Effects of Normal Aging on Our Cognitive Abilities

Advanced Level

1. Cognition and Emotion: Two Distinct Concepts for Two Distinct Realities
2. A Neuroanatomical and Psychological Model of Anxiety
3. Neural Darwinism
4. "Grandmother Cells", or Synchronous Discharges of Neurons?
5. Homeotic Genes
6. Chomsky's Universal Grammar
7. Your "Mental Stopwatch"
10. Prospective Treatments for Alzheimer's

 

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