85-117 Changing your brain

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Changing Your Brain explores one of the most fascinating questions in science How does experience physically reshape the human brain In this handson course, students will learn about brain plasticity by testing it on themselves. Students will complete cognitive training, collect and analyze MRI data, and compare brain activity before and after learning. Along the way, we will ask what really changes with practice, how cognitive skills build intelligence and support success in college, and how brain imaging can help us understand and improve the human mind.

Prerequisites: none listed

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