Taught for beginners in a simple and concise way! I especially liked the real life examples given to help students understand the concepts being explained - made it a lot more engaging!

I found this course to be interesting and informative. Dr Groh does a great job in making the content relatable and easy to understand even without a background in the brain.

This is an excellent MOOC. I am a PhD candidate studying human intelligence and spatial cognition specifically associated with problem solving. The content is very well structured and clearly communicated through the lectures. Having been briefly introduced to some of the concepts in my own studies prior to this course I am finding the difficulty level to be quite nice (challenging yet very manageable). The inclusion of various experiments throughout the course is a good idea as it makes it all very interesting.

One of the best Neuroscience courses took in my life. The professor is very good at teaching and amazing personality and her research team is very great. Hope one day she would win Nobel Prize

Great course !!! The information provided within the course was complete and easy to understand without oversimplifying the topics along with applicable to daily use concepts and work.

One of the excellent course I've taken ob coursera. Dr. Jennifer's explanation helped me to get a whole new level of view in understanding brain and its activities in space.

This is an interesting and excellent course on how our nervous system (not just our brain) makes sense of, processes and responds to the external physical space. There is a great and gradual mix of easy, moderate and challenging topics which can cement key concepts (especially those that you can observe or replicate on your own) quite well. For people in or aiming to be in the (allied) medical professions, a lot of the material here can serve as a review in basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and/or neuropathology.

A double-edged sword in this offering is the inclusion and description of landmark studies behind the discussed concepts. There is no doubt that by mentioning these studies, the collaborative and building-up nature of (neuro)science is emphasized adequately - that everything in academic textbooks and in this course did not appear in scientists' minds out of thin air. The downside, on the other hand, is that it sometimes left me wondering the proportion of these findings that are definitive or tentative. Considering the issue of replication that hounds all of empirical science research, it would be nice, I think, that future revisions of this course will incorporate statements or discussions on these matters (i.e, whether the findings are robust, or can be explained by other factors/forces beyond chance).

While I would argue that a baseline grasp of neurobiology is needed to maximize understanding of the content (especially when it comes to nuanced details which are often tackled in the quizzes), I will still highly recommend this course to everyone deeply beguiled by the topic (and can commit their attention beyond casual learning). Perhaps, those who have access the Dr. Groh's book serving as the main reference for this course might find their learning experience enhanced.

Absolutely magnificent course! The course is great, and is taught in such an understandable language. I am thirteen years old, and just completed this course, and i feel the need to express my gratitude towards the professor who is teaching this entire course. She is understandable, funny, and manages to teach very complex topics without making them boring, or hard to follow. There are also loads of examples, animations, and images to make the topics easier to understand. Massive kudos to her!

Fantastic instructor. Her ability to clearly communicate dense technical jargon is beyond commendable. She succeeded in making me feel her enthusiasm and fascination with the subject. While I do think the course could use a couple more lectures, or at least some of the lectures dealing with more complex topics could be longer, I still think as is, the course is well worth taking. Kudos to Dr. Groh and "The Brain and Space" team, your love and effort truly shine through.

I like the details that this course provides about the functionality of the brain. Dr Groh definitely took her time to prepare this course, and she likes to go in depth detail about everything.

Excellent overview.

its a pity I would have had to upgrade to submit the assigments, as I don't want to purchase the certificate.

it' encouraged me, however, to enrol on another course.

Brilliant! I'm taking this while reading Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works' and all the overlap makes the learning experience even more fun.

Loved it. I took another class from Duke related to visual perception and was equally satisfied with the detail, and pace, of the course.

This course represents a good start in order to study space and brain relationship. However the lack of principles in neuroscience, related topics such as mirror neuron systems, a deeper knowledge on motor cortex culd lead to important misconceptions and limits. It's really a good start but the course need more reliable contents, scientific reasoning and debate.

Your Kindly,

Giulio Bindi

Terrible too much information before a quiz and lack of clarity to make assumptions. TERRRIBLE course. HOW do I unenroll!

He disfrutado enormemente el reto de completar el curso. Por dos motivos prinipales. Mi dominio del idioma inglés es aún, digamos deficiente, así que el absorber conocimientos en otro idioma con el reto y la satisfacción de haber conluido es muy gratificante. En segundo lugar comparto la curiosidad con la Profesora Groh respecto a conocer el cerebro y la mente, ella ha hecho un estupendo trabajo llevándonos en este proceso, gracias por el sombrero, jeje.

This is pretty fun and interesting course! The video lectures are full of very interesting information and if you are interested in learning how the brain works, I am sure you'll be hooked on to it. The exercises sometimes need you to remember concepts, particularly names and I am not a big fan of that. I feel the exercises can be made more interesting and engaging. Dr. Groh regularly links to books and papers to explore more if you want to!

Jennifer's teaching style is refreshingly direct and well illustrated. I learned a lot and confirmed my understanding of many things.

The course also resonates with a cognitive system development platform I have developed, called NeurOS. See www.cognitivity.technology for an overview. As a result of this course, I plan to build some "neural circuits" using this platform that reflect the many neural processes illustrated in this course.

Dr Groh was so inspiring, passionate, clear and precise. She exhibited complete mastery of teaching the course, it was like watching an artist unraveling their craft, no wonder so many artistic pieces were used as examples in the lectures! I enjoyed this very rich and interesting course as a psychomotor therapist and a neurosciences lover, it will definitely help me in my career. The course was so enjoyable that I was sad it ended.

Really a well thought out course and expertly delivered! I've never had such well explained lectures, using simple terms to explain complex subjects. Our professor is a master at education as well as her subject expertise. This is a great course, a little kooky at times, but just the right amount of kooky to make it more interesting and fun. Thanks for the obvious hard work in producing the course and time expended making it!

I would put this course on the list of my top 5 courses taken in Coursera. Great teacher and great videos with the learning material. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in getting a first insight of the inner workings of the brain in terms of vision and the space perception. Thank you Dr. Jennifer M. Groh and thanks to the Duke University staff for the amazing neuroscience courses they are providing!

Very well presented. Dr Groh is passionate in this space and easy to listen to and lean from. I work a lot with patients who have movement disorders and with other brain lesions, so this course has been very helpful for us in justifying our novel approaches to improving functionality. I have also been concerned of the effects of chronic use of IPods/Headphones on sensory integration of non auditory informations

Fascinating insights on how one's brain orients itself in space via the senses. The lectures are loaded with useful examples, relevant research, and helpful visual aids. The class stirred in me more of an appreciation for the interrelatedness of each of the senses with each other and with memory. Dr. Groh sheds light on several of the brain's strategies for efficiently intrpreting of a complex environment.

Dr. Groh is one of the most brillant and most passionate instructors I have come across. I found her to be an excellent educator for this course. If you want to understand more about vision, sight, touch, and how the brain uses these senses to help us navigate the world, I highly recommend this class. Dr. Groh goes above and beyond to make each lesson comprehensible, and at times, even entertaining.

This course was a good start for beginners in neuroscience and spatial cognition at a finer scale.I expanded my knowledge on how we see, hear, and think spatially from high school level to one step further. I appreciate Dr. Groh's effort to make the classes enjoyable. She provided many interesting papers to review on our own and the lectures were usually interesting and fun to watch.