Here you will find simulations with AI-powered tutors designed to help you build intuition for the concepts and mechanisms explored in the course. Each tool asks you to predict, explain, experiment, and reason your way through a biological process, and the AI tutor will give you individualized feedback that helps you fill gaps in your understanding based on your responses.
Explore how ion gradients and selective permeability establish the resting membrane potential — the electrical foundation for all neural signaling.
Step through the five phases of an action potential with an AI tutor that responds to your reasoning. Includes an ion manipulation mode to explore what happens when conditions go wrong.
Watch an action potential travel along myelinated, unmyelinated, and MS-model axons simultaneously. Predict the outcome, then fire and observe saltatory conduction in action.
Explore how signals cross the synaptic cleft — vesicle release, receptor binding, and the difference between excitatory and inhibitory synapses.
Trace a signal from retina to LGN to V1 and explore how receptive fields transform at each stage — from center-surround contrast detection to orientation selectivity.
Coming soon
Build simple invertebrate circuits and observe how network architecture shapes behavior — from reflexes to rhythm generation.