Lecture 1.1: Nancy Kanwisher - Human Cognitive Neuroscience 

If you visit the syllabus page on the OCW RES.9-003 site there is a general list of prerequisites that you need for these materials: ocw.mit.edu/RES-9-003SU15. You will be able to find a lot of these background materials elsewhere on the OCW site ocw.mit.edu by using the topics search. Good luck with your studies!

Crash Course Psychology & Anatomy of the Brain

I too am super-interested in this field of study. First, familiarize yourself with the simple rudimentary basics of electricity and how electrons move from negative positive potentials. Nothing happens without that. Learn about cell structure, specifically neuron cell structure. Axons, dendrites, axon hillocks, synapses, ion channels and ligands are the parts that do the heavy lifting. The basics of DNA are important, as well as a thorough understanding of what Evolution by Natural Selection really means. A solid understanding of what fractals are, including the terms recursion, iteration, similar-but-different, would really help. After that, Robert Sapolsky's lectures from his Stanford University course called Human Behavioral Biology is just awesome. It is available on RU-vid. He has a couple documentaries on RU-vid that are fascinating as well. I suggest watching them first. It's been a while since your post. I hope you have had success with your neuroscientific education. I hope this helps. It should.

I didnt fully get you at first, but then I did. Yeah youre right.

But if it's receiving input from another brain region to complete process X, isn't it then by definition not sufficient? Wouldn't that mean that for any functional process X, the final area involved (the area that finally "completes" the task) would be the only "sufficient" region? Sorry I'm sure I'm misunderstanding

pursuing MS in computational neuro will be good for you. letter you can apply for PhD in cog-neueo or AI in health..etc.

Why is that LOL worthy?

There is a 2021 version of this but it is not available on MIT OpenCourseWare: cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school.

@@mitocw for up to-date education i believe courses would be better if we can see what professors talk about with the latest advancements in technology and science. By the way I am thankful that mit shares these classes online. Thank you so much

Respectable society still is! They are the pioneers of scientism.