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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