(Set) Creativity and Your Brain & The Learning Brain

Explore the myriad ways our brains create and learn with this illuminating two-course set. In Creativity and Your Brain, delve into the remarkable science of human creativity and the cutting-edge discoveries that can help us understand it. And in The Learning Brain, explore in-depth and surprising lessons on how the brain learns and remembers, whether you’re learning a new language at 60 or discovering calculus at 16.

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