Skills you'll gain

There are 9 modules in this course

LIGHTCAP’s 2 “Basics of light and its effects on humans: Light, cognition, alertness, sleep” covers light as a physical phenomenon and introduces important psychological and chronobiological outcomes – how to measure them and how light acts on them. The course is one in a series of four, each with a different disciplinary basis and with complementary perspectives to the domain of light for humans. The basis of this course is a combination of physics, psychology and chronobiology. In this course you will: (1) be introduced to important concepts such as cognition, alertness and sleepiness and self-report tools to measure them (2) learn what light is. What standard light sources have been defined by the CIE and how we measure light (3) learn how light is processed in human eyes and be introduced to new measures of light since the discovery of the ipRGC (4) learn how psychophysiology responds to light and how we measure these responses (5) be introduced to EEG as a method of measuring cognition and alertness (6) see how EEG is being applied in light research and learn about basics of EEG data visualisation and interpretation (7) learn about the link between light and sleep health (8) understand in greater depth the impact of light on sleep health and learn that there may be important individual differences in non-visual light sensitivity

Chapter 1 - How do you perform under light? Are you paying attention?

Chapter 2 - What is light, and how can we measure it?

Chapter 3 - Light and Human Eyes

Chapter 4 - The body might respond to light, even if we don’t notice it

Chapter 5 - Introduction to EEG as a method of measuring cognition and alertness

Chapter 6 - Application of EEG in light research

Chapter 7 - What’s sleep got to do with it? The link between light and sleep health

Chapter 8 - The link between light and sleep health

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