9.03 | Fall 2007 | Undergraduate

Neural Basis of Learning and Memory

Course Description

This course highlights the interplay between cellular and molecular storage mechanisms and the cognitive neuroscience of memory, with an emphasis on human and animal models of hippocampal mechanisms and function. Class sessions include lectures and discussion of papers.
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Brain diagram showing hippocampus, frontal lobes and medial septum.
Some of the brain regions involved in creating long-term memories. (Image courtesy of the National Institutes of Health.)