Salgo, A., O Shea, G., Hellemans, K. & Davies, J. (2021). Postsynaptic Simulator: An open-source visual interactive simulation for teaching action potentials. In D. G. Sampson, D. Ifenthaler and P. Isaías (Eds.) Proceedings of the Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age conference (CELDA-21). Berlin: Springer. 3-10.

• Serious game to help people learn about action potentials

BibTex Entry:

@InProceedings{Davies, 
  author = 	 {Salgo, Alexander and O Shea, Galen and Hellemans,
Kim and Davies, Jim}, 
  title = 	 {Postsynaptic Simulator: An open-source visual interactive simulation for teaching action potentials.}, 
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age conference}, 
  pages = 	 {3--10}, 
  year = 	 {2021}, 
  editor = 	 {Sampson, D.G. and Ifenthaler, D. and Isais, P.}, 
  volume = 	 {}, 
  number = 	 {}, 
  series = 	 {}, 
  address = 	 {}, 
  month = 	 {}, 
  organization = {}, 
  publisher = {Springer}
}

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Abstract

We introduce an open-source game-like educational software that teaches users about how action potentials work. The Postsynaptic Simulator requires users to demonstrate understanding of neural mechanisms to progress through levels, each of which teaches a different aspect of neuron activity.