The human brain processes complex stimuli from the world into meaningful information. It enables us to distinguish faces, colors, sounds, or objects; perceive depth, size, or motion; navigate the space around us; learn new information and remember it decades later; communicate our ideas to others, sometimes in multiple languages, and often non-verbally; understand what others are thinking or feeling; and much more! This course will introduce you to the human brain: how it is organized, what tools we use to study it, and how findings from brain research have influenced the way we think about education, medicine, morality, and even conflict resolution! Topics covered will include human development, perception, thinking, language, emotion, memory, and social cognition.

The human brain processes complex stimuli from the world around us into meaningful information. It enables us to distinguish faces, colors, sounds, or objects; perceive depth, size, or motion; navigate the space around us; learn new information and remember it decades later; communicate our ideas to others, sometimes in multiple languages; understand what others are thinking or feeling; and much more! This course will introduce you to the human brain: how it is organized, what tools we use to study it, and how findings from brain research have influenced the way we think about education, medicine, morality, and even conflict resolution!

Writing: Section F (Pisces)