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Torres, David J.; Romero, Andres; Colgan, Wes, III; Ricoy, Ulises M. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2021
Undergraduates use a spike sorting routine developed in Octave to analyze the spiking activity generated from mechanical stimulation of spines of cockroach legs with the inexpensive SpikerBox amplifier and the free software Audacity. Students learn the procedures involved in handling the cockroaches and recording extracellular action potentials…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Neurosciences, Physiology, Entomology
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Tadielo, Ana Luiza Trombini; Sosa, Priscila Marques; Mello-Carpes, Pamela Billig – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Research investigating how the brain develops and learns profoundly impacts education. Understanding the brain mechanisms responsible for learning and memory and the factors that influence them, such as age, environment, emotions, and motivation, can transform educational strategies by contributing to the development of programs that optimize…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain, Physiology, Educational Innovation
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Dampney, Roger A. L. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2016
This brief review, which is based on a lecture presented at the American Physiological Society Teaching Refresher Course on the Brain and Systems Control as part of the Experimental Biology meeting in 2015, aims to summarize current concepts of the principal mechanisms in the brain that regulate the autonomic outflow to the cardiovascular system.…
Descriptors: Human Body, Brain, Neurological Organization, Neurosciences