Backyard Brains Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone
Accessible, hands-on neuroscience experiments for high school and college students. Record the electrical activity in your muscles! Perform live neuron recordings with an insect!
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We provide affordable neuroscience experiment kits for students of all ages to learn (hands-on) about electrophysiology. Now everyone from schoolchildren to grad students and every grade …
Experiment: Record and Manipulate Live Neurons! - Backyard Brains
This is THE experiment to get you started with neuron spikes! By the end of this experiment, you will understand what neurons are, how they communicate, the principle of rate coding, and …
Experiment: The Consciousness Detector - EEG, Oddball Task, and …
With this experiment, you will learn even more about communication within the human brain, and look at the brain's response when it senses an unexpected stimulus. You will observe this by …
Experiment: How Fast Your Brain Reacts To Stimuli - Backyard Brains
Experiment: How Fast Your Brain Reacts To Stimuli. How fast do you think you are? Do you know what a reflex and a reaction are? This lesson plan tells all about the quickness of your nervous …
Backyard Brains Experiments
Below you will find all of our open source experiments, lesson plans and useful information. If you are an educator, you may be interested in what Educational Standards our lesson plans …
DIY Neuroscientists - Backyard Brains
We strive to provide DIY instruction for all of our tech and experiments, allowing our materials to not only teach neuroscience, but also to teach electrical engineering, programming, …
Experiment: Sleep - Backyard Brains
With this experiment, you will learn the modes your brain enters when you are sleeping and how to identify the various electrical waves that occur. Also you take a nap! Prerequisite Labs
How the SpikerBox Revolutionized K12 STEM Education…
With this SpikerBox we can unlock the secret electrical language used in plants, demonstrating fundamental neuroscience principles in an unconventional model organism, and spreading the …
Experiment: Wirelessly Control a Cyborg Cockroach - Backyard …
We recommend that you carefully read through this guided experiment entirely before you start the surgery to prepare your human brain as well! Also, we’d like to remind you that the …