{"id":105,"date":"2017-07-20T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/odonnell17online\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:39:14","slug":"week-10-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/sf-aug-4\/week-10-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 10: Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/h3>\n

This week we begin to enter the series of weeks were we tackle scientific fields at individual (and smaller!) scales. We’ll be hitting some human anatomy\/physiology, medicine, chemistry, and technology from now until the end of the semester.\u00a0 This week we’re going to explore some basic neuroscience! How do we know about our brains? In 1994, Francis Crick wrote a book called The Astonishing Hypothesis<\/em>, which is based around the idea that everything we think, all of our emotions, behaviors, senses, etc., boils down to the same type of electrical signals transmitted around our brains. We can only think about our brains using our brains.<\/p>\n

We’ll be thinking about how animals communicate with each other as an example of how scientists study the workings of the brain. We’ll also take a deep dive into the different ways we can visualize human brains.<\/p>\n

Learning Objectives:<\/h3>\n