Experience in the Eye of the Beholder: How Individual Brains Create Reality (HyFlex: Zoom)
Fall (4-8 hours) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT
This is the Zoom registration option for this course!
This course explores the fascinating world of individual consciousness and subjective experience, examining how each person’s unique mental landscape emerges from brain activity. We’ll explore cutting-edge methods scientists use to study the individual brain—from neuroimaging techniques that reveal personal thought patterns to innovative approaches for measuring subjective states like emotions, memories, and perceptions.
The course addresses fundamental questions: How do we study something as personal as individual experience? What makes each mind unique? How do subjective feelings translate into observable brain activity?
Through case studies and current research, we’ll examine both the remarkable tools available for understanding individual minds and the profound challenges that remain in bridging the gap between objective brain science and subjective human experience.
This course will combine lecture with class discussions.
Clara Sava-Segal
Clara is a PhD student at Dartmouth College and has been working at the intersection of neuroscience and psychology research for the last seven years. One of the questions that her research explores is how and why we reach variable interpretations (or memories!) of the same experiences.