OSHER 635 - Brain Investigations: Learning and the Brain

The goal of this class is to further our understanding of how our brains learn, work, and remember. We'll begin with how we gain knowledge by looking at how the brain organizes information and retrieves or discards it. We will discuss brain biology and the foundations of vocabulary and brain processes; the roles emotion, sense, and meaning play in learning; and neuro-plasticity, the brain's ability to regenerate.