Coursera – The Brain and Space 2025-3

The Brain and Space, 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, affecting the way we think and remember. The material in this course is based on a book I’ve written for a general audience. The book is called “Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are”, and is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or directly from Harvard University Press. The course material overlaps with classes on perception or systems neuroscience, and can be taken either before or after such classes.

What you’ll learn

• You’ll also learn about how scientists from Democritus to Alhazen to Kepler figured this out.
• We then turn to body senses (position and touch) and how our brains detect the configuration of our own bodies.
• we turn to the brain and how it uses the spatial position of neurons within the brain to organize information about the spatial position of stimuli in the world (Making Space chapter 4)
• we turn to the fascinating puzzle of how we deduce sound location–a process that requires quite a bit of detective work.
• we turn to how spatial locations are defined, and discuss the concept of a reference frame

Specificatoin of The Brain and Space

• Publisher : Coursera
• Teacher : Dr. Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D.
• Language : English
• Level : Beginner
• Number of Course : 6
• Duration : Approx. 9 hours

Content of The Brain and Space

Requirements

• No prior experience required

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