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The learning layer between content and understanding
Spider helps university students understand their course, not just search it.
Spider connects lectures, notes, readings, and course materials into an AI-powered learning system that helps students ask better questions, track understanding, and build deeper knowledge.
University learning is fragmented.
Students move between slides, recordings, notes, readings and assessments. The content exists, but it is disconnected. Spider brings every material into one connected course network.
No upload needed — Spider automatically pulls, updates & maintains your course content.
How Spider works
Ask questions in context
Get answers grounded in the actual material students are studying.
Build understanding over time
Identify gaps, connect ideas, and track learning progress.
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See how new content fits with your learning.
Spider reads alongside your course materials. As you work through a paper, it highlights key concepts, links them to your modules, and flags ideas you have not covered yet. Hover or tap a highlighted phrase below to see how Spider connects it to your course.
Microstructure of a Spatial Map in the Entorhinal Cortex
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Microstructure of a Spatial Map in the Entorhinal Cortex
Abstract
As the interface between hippocampus and neocortex, the entorhinal cortex is likely to play a pivotal role in memory. To determine how information is represented in this area, we measured spatial modulation of neural activity in layers of medial entorhinal cortex projecting to the hippocampus. Close to the postrhinal–entorhinal border, entorhinal neurons had stable and discrete multipeaked place fields, predicting the rat's location as accurately as place cells in the hippocampus.
Introduction
An extensive body of evidence implicates the hippocampus in the formation of episodic memories, but has also pointed to a role in spatial navigation. Memory consolidation depends on interactions with the hippocampus. Information processed in the entorhinal cortex during encoding may be necessary for the storage of new memories expressed at the neuronal level.
Connected to your course
Key concept
Not yet covered
Adaptive learning
Spider learns what you know — and teaches to it.
As you work, Spider builds a personal knowledge web: a living map of what you have mastered, what is still forming, and the misconceptions quietly holding you back.
Because Spider knows where you are, it can scaffold the next step and judge exactly how much to help — enough to keep you moving, never so much that it does the thinking for you.
- Infers misconceptions from how you answer and what you skip
- Scaffolds critical thinking instead of handing over answers
- Calibrates support to keep you in the zone where real learning happens
Your understanding
Systems Neuroscience
- Action potentials Mastered
- Synaptic transmission Mastered
- Synaptic plasticity Forming
- LTP / LTD Misconception
- Memory consolidation Not yet covered
Spider spotted a misconception in LTP / LTD — so it slows down and guides you there.
Too littleOverwhelming — you disengage
Spider keeps you here
Too muchThe learning is removed
Spider tunes its guidance to the sweet spot where you are challenged enough to grow, but supported enough to succeed — so learning stays engaging, not overwhelming.
For universities
Course-grounded AI for serious learning.
Spider gives universities a way to support AI-assisted learning while keeping course materials, academic context, and student understanding at the centre.
- Grounded in your own course content
- Student feedback & learning analytics
- Designed for research and pilots
Beyond your course
Connect with the researchers behind your reading.
When your work overlaps with an academic's, Spider surfaces the match — and drafts a thoughtful introduction you can edit and send in a click.
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Match
Dr. Eleanor Voss
Matched to your reading on grid cells — 3 related papers in your department.
Grid Cells and the Cognitive Map: Revisiting…
2023
Suggested intro
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Dear Dr. Voss,
I'm a second-year Neuroscience student at Edinburgh studying your 2023 paper on grid cells — particularly the argument that place fields are downstream of grid-cell metric computation.
I'm exploring how disruption to this system might relate to early-stage Alzheimer's pathology, and would love your perspective. Could we have a brief conversation, or might you point me to ongoing work in your lab?
Many thanks,
Alex Chen
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