Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, explores how the brain learns and remembers. This video focuses on a discussion of how the brain is organized in general.

These lectures will provide the foundation.
information necessary to the understanding.
of the lectures which will follow. A special.
emphasis will be given to systems in the brain.
that underlie learning and memory, attention.
and awareness. These introductory lectures.
will be followed by a lecture on how different.
areas of the brain encode different, specific.
types of information—from the phone number.
we need only remember for a few minutes or.
less to the childhood memories we retain for.
a lifetime. We will also address the \.