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Using Neuroscience to Improve Your Marketing

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Madecraft

Using Neuroscience to Improve Your Marketing

Madecraft

Instructor: Madecraft

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

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3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply neuroscience-informed frameworks to design marketing activations that shape consumer perception and direct their attention.

  • Use behavioral principles of loss aversion and System 1 and System 2 decision-making to calibrate messaging that motivate purchase.

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June 2026

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8 assignments¹

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There are 6 modules in this course

Marketers run campaigns, optimize funnels, and test subject lines every day, but most do so without a framework for how the brain actually processes any of it. In this module, you will discover why consumers cannot reliably report what drives their behavior, map the biological tools researchers use to observe consumer decisions in real time, and apply this framework to sharpen what you measure and why.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment

Your consumers don't experience your brand, your pricing, or your advertising the way you intend: their brains construct a version of reality from expectations, patterns, and sensory cues that your marketing can actively shape. In this module, you'll apply neuroscience frameworks for perception and attention to design brand activations that direct what consumers notice, associate, and remember.

What's included

4 videos2 readings2 assignments

Your brand's most beautifully crafted campaign means nothing if consumers forget it the moment it ends. In this module, you'll apply the neuroscience of memory encoding — including the role of attention, emotion, and audio — to design marketing activations that leave a lasting impression rather than disappearing into the noise.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment

Your consumers are not making decisions the same way for every category, every product, and every price point. In this module, you'll apply a dual-system framework to calibrate your messaging, UX, and promotional strategy to the specific type of thinking your consumer is using at the moment of decision.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment

Your consumers are not simply seeking pleasure from your brand — they are continuously calibrating the expected pleasure of your product against the pain of paying for it, and that balance determines whether they buy. In this module, you'll apply the neuroscience of pleasure, pain, and loss aversion to redesign your product strategy, promotional framing, and pricing presentation so they work with the brain's motivational architecture rather than against it.

What's included

4 videos2 readings2 assignments

The neuroscience principles you've built across this course don't operate in silos: the same brain that constructs mental models is the one that encodes emotional memories, defaults to System 1, and experiences the pain of paying. In this module, you'll synthesize your learning into an integrated framework you can apply, test, and extend across your full marketing mix.

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1 video1 assignment

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