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In 1662 René Descartes, the French philosopher, wrote about the question of how it comes that we immediately react to noxious stimuli such as heat so quickly. Since then , our understanding of the nervous system has evolved immensely, yet some of the vocabulary used and the descriptions involved remain strikingly similar.
In this PBL case, students must research neuroscientific explanations in their historical context, to understand how our knowledge has changed through time.
Simon Büchner
Simon J. Büchner studied Cognitive Science and Philosophy in Freiburg and Cognitive Psychology in Amherst, Massachusetts, supported by scholarships from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He then worked in interdisciplinary research projects on human spatial navigation and received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Freiburg. As a graduate student, he was a visiting researcher at Concordia University, Montréal. Dr. Büchner is responsible for the Major Life Sciences at the University College Freiburg. This includes the development of the curriculum, the course offerings per semester, recruiting and supporting Teaching Fellows, as well as thesis supervision.
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