Course Website

Neurobiology of Learning & Decision Making

Explore interactive demonstrations, run experiments, and prepare for exams — all in one place.

Beyond the syllabus

The people who make NLDM feel like a community

A few favorite moments from the classroom, the teaching team, and the conversations that continue over tea.

Psychology 505 class gathered at the front of a lecture hall — One class, many ways of thinking about learning and choice.

The instructor and teaching assistants sitting together in an office — The teaching team behind the scenes.

Teaching assistants sharing tea during an informal tea hour — Tea hour: ideas, questions, and a well-earned pause.

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Course Overview

Course purpose, learning goals, the slide-aligned 13-module sequence, resource map, and publication boundaries. Use Canvas for current logistics.

Course map & policies

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Exam Prep

Summaries, key equations, and study guides for each lecture module. Reinforce your understanding before exams.

13 modules · Modules 1 – 13

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Demonstrations

Interactive visualizations of core concepts — dopamine prediction errors, drift diffusion, place cells, and more.

11 demos · Decision Making · Learning · Navigation

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Experiments

Run private browser-based paradigms such as Random Dot Motion and bandit tasks, or join an anonymous classroom poll.

3 live · 2 coming soon

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Vibe Coding Experiment

An individual, hands-on practice lab for building and deploying a reaction-time experiment with an AI coding assistant before starting the final project.

Practice for the final project · Open to everyone

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Final Project Guide

Move from a course question to an ethical, browser-based behavioral experiment, analysis, report, and presentation.

Design · Build · Analyze

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Student Projects

Final projects from Psych 505 — student-designed behavioral experiments built and deployed for Spring 2026.

Spring 2026 · 20 projects