Neurosimilator for Undergraduate Biophysics and Neurophysiology Courses.

ABSTRACT: Stringent animal welfare principles are forcing undergraduate instructors to avoid the use of animals. Therefore, many hands-on lab sessions using laboratory animals are progressively replaced by computer simulations. These versatile software simulations permit the observation of the behavior of biological systems under a great variety of experimental conditions. While this versatility is important, computer simulations often work even when a student makes wrong assumptions, a situation that poses its own pedagogical problem. Hands-on learning provides pupils with the opportunity to safely make mistakes and learn organically through trial and error and should therefore still be promoted. We propose an electronic model of an excitable cell composed of different modules representing differen

SUBMITTER: Dupuis F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11441439 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature