Neuroscience Animations

John H. Krantz, Hanover College, krantzj@hanover.edu

Using the Media

Topics

Neurons

Psychophysics

Vision

Audition

Skin Senses

Statistical Concepts

Hanover College
Psychology Department

Basic Neuron Functioning

  • Membrane Potentials

  • Action Potential

  • Generating Action Potentials

    • Spatial and Temporal SummationThis interactivity allows you to explore what is necessary to both increase and reduce the likelihood of synaptic communication to cause neurons to fire. (straight to applet).

    • Neural Coding.  To be able to function, the brain have a way of changing differences in stimulation or thoughts into different patterns of firing in the brain.  This is called neural coding.  This interactivity introduces a few basic types of neural coding.  (straight to applet).

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