FW: Dear LM Teachers & Colleagues: Uploading Learning-Memory teaching videos to YOUTUBE with leanringandmemory keyword

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Harry Whitaker

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Jul 18, 2012, 11:42:11 AM7/18/12

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Forwarded because I think the Cheiron group has some members who could contribute to this worthy enterprise, as well as profit from it.

Whit

From: Mark Gluck [mailto:gl...@pavlov.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:37 AM
To: Whit
Subject: Re: Dear LM Teachers & Colleagues: Uploading Learning-Memory teaching videos to YOUTUBE with leanringandmemory keyword

YES.. Or at least that of the list I had from a year ago.. M

On Jul 18, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Whit wrote:

Mark, I assume you sent this to the MDRS list?

whit

From: Mark Gluck [mailto:gl...@pavlov.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:04 PM
To: Mark Gluck
Subject: Dear LM Teachers & Colleagues: Uploading Learning-Memory teaching videos to YOUTUBE with leanringandmemory keyword

Dear Fellow Teachers of Learning and Memory:

In an effort to draw on the power of crowd-sourcing to assist everyone who teaches learning and memory to either undergraduates or graduate students, I write to ask if you would join us in sharing any and all video clips that enhance the classroom presentation of concepts about the psychology and neuroscience of learning and memory (or which could be viewed by students at home on their own).

What I propose is that everyone who has such clips that they use in their own classroom, upload these clips to YOUTUBE along with the uniquely searchable keyword:

learningandmemory

Additional keywords should be added to help identify the content of the clips (e.g., classical conditioning, habituation, dopamine, hippocampus).

Especially useful are clips that illustrate:

* What an animal or human learning or memory experiment looks like as it transpires in real time. Clips that help the student feel as if they are there in the lab seeing how the data is collected, or what it might feel like themselves to be a subject in an experiment are especially valuable

* Historical clips relating to early research and researchers.

* Interviews with key researchers in the field (ideally edited to just a few key minutes)

* Interviews with patients suffering from various brain disorders (e.g., amnesia, Parkinson's, PTSD, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's) to make the clinical perspectives more accessible.

* Animations that schematically illustrate theories and models of learning and memory (e.g., the Rescorla-Wagner model, various computational models of memory retrieval, etc.)

* Videos or animations of the brain's 3-Dimensional structure (perhaps showing the brain rotating) to give the students a better intuitive visual understanding of how the brain really looks.

* Illustrations of key methods in the field (e.g., fMRI, PET, DTI, electrophysiological recording, EEG), that give the student the feel of having visited a lab that uses these methods.

* Clips from popular movies or other sources that illustrate the every-day-life examples of key concepts in learning and memory (e.g, positive reinforcement, operant conditioning, fear conditioning)

LENGTH: I would strongly encourage editing these clips to be as short as possible -- 15 -30 seconds is ideal -- given the amount of material that often needs to be covered in a 1hr lecture. The best clips should be able to be inserted as-is into the PPTs or other media a professor uses in their lectures.

Any and all such clips that you can upload this summer would be wonderful with the hope that they are ready by the fall for use in courses being taught this coming September. And as other clips become available or you find them during the year, please do continue to upload and update..and be sure to use the keyword "learningandmemory" (one long word) to help others find them.

Feel free to email me back with any and all suggestions or ideas. Thanks..

- Mark

PS. The 2nd edition of our textbook, Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior, is due to arrive this fall, along with a wonderful and completely revised set of powerpoint slides for practically plug-n-play lectures. To arrange for an advance copy, you can email my editor directly at

Daniel DeBonis <ddeb...@worthpub.com>

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Dr. Mark A. Gluck, Professor

Director, Rutgers Memory Disorders Project

Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience

Rutgers University

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Newark, New Jersey 07102

Web: http://www.gluck.edu

Email: gl...@pavlov.rutgers.edu

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