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About the Course

This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense
in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortless. But “under the hood,” your brain must figure out even the
simplest of details about the world around you and your position in it. Recognizing your mother, finding your phone, going to the grocery store,
playing the banjo – these require careful sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. This course traces the brain’s
detective work to create this sense of space and argues that the brain’s spatial focus permeates our cognitive abilities, affect...
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Top reviews

TB

Sep 8, 2020

I like the details that this course provides about the functionality of the brain. Dr Groh definitely took her time to prepare this course, and she likes to go in depth detail about everything.

TZ

Aug 15, 2020

One of the best Neuroscience courses took in my life. The professor is very good at teaching and amazing personality and her research team is very great. Hope one day she would win Nobel Prize

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By Arun K

Nov 24, 2016

Excellent course to understand the basics of vision and how and why we can see. Thank you.

By Peter G

Jun 20, 2016

A great intro to neuroscience. Creative videos that are both informative and fun to watch.

By Mengli

May 30, 2016

I like this class. It provide a lot of detail info. And the teacher is nice and patience.

By ROSANNA G

Jul 23, 2020

Very interesting. The final quizzes in each series of videos help to clarify everything.

By Безрукова В

Oct 24, 2019

This course really helps to open your mind and understand the process inside your brain!

By Samantha B G

Apr 28, 2020

I really enjoyed this course and loved how practical it was to understand.

Thanks a lot.

By Shurronda A

Jul 17, 2022

This course is so hard even if you by the book, but "I loved every minute"....!!!

By Keith M

Jul 1, 2016

Amazing learning experience! Put simply yet comprehensively. A must-do course!

By MinCheol L

Jan 27, 2018

Easy, but interesting enough for additional study on the topic of the course.

By Francis R M M J

Feb 14, 2021

The course is very informative. I gained a lot of learning from this course.

By Poonam S

Sep 1, 2020

Very scientific and great experiments to make us understand the concepts

By 张博文

Sep 12, 2017

You can learn a variety of things in this course. Highly recommend it!

By fzark100

Nov 6, 2016

As an student in EEE, I think this course really inspire me in various

By Tianyu Z

Jan 17, 2021

Thanks a lot, Dr. Jennifer M. Groh. I learned a lot in this course!!

By Carlos M G

Oct 1, 2019

Excellent. Many thanks to the talented teacher Dr. Jennifer M. Groh.

By Helmut K

Feb 7, 2018

Very interesting and good trigger to dive deeper into that topic!

By Izzy L

Jul 7, 2022

realy omteresting and extremely good teaching and assessing!!!

By Cat W

Sep 12, 2017

Crisp presentation of a decent amount of interesting topics!

By P P

Sep 5, 2018

fantastic enthusiasm from Prof. Groh. Well worth your time.

By Agustín S

May 28, 2021

Curso muy didáctico y sencillo dentro de su complejidad.

By Gracie M

Feb 27, 2017

awesome. Course is interesting and engaging. cheers!

By Ícaro D

Sep 26, 2017

Superb introduction to some concepts of neurology.

By Sakshi A

Jun 19, 2020

A must do course for beginners in neuroscience!!!

By Wei X

Dec 5, 2018

excellent crash course. Concise and to the point.

By Ji, C

Apr 21, 2018

Very useful in understanding how our brain works!