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This First-Year Seminar will cover multiple topics related to what we know about how the brain allows one to learn new facts and skills and to remember the daily events of our lives. We will cover such topics as classical conditioning (e.g., Pavlov’s Dogs), operant conditioning (e.g., how to train your dog), how we remember events in our lives (e.g., when you received your acceptance to JHU), how memory can go wrong (e.g., fallibility of eyewitness testimony), how artificial intelligence and deep learning are similar and dissimilar to the brain, and how memory is affected in aging and in diseases like Alzheimer’s.