Super nice and helpful professor, he just assigns a lot of dense readings. It's still manageable, just hard to understand. The lectures in class and the tests I think are both reasonable. I'd recommend this class but just know you'll be doing a lot of reading.

The content of the class was interesting - Idan used great examples and covered cool concepts relating to cognitive science. Sometimes it was a little hard to understand the "bigger picture" and abstract concepts since he usually was specific in his lectures, but never really took a step back and connected the content together, you had to do that on your own. Despite this, I really enjoyed the class. Idan is super sweet and considerate and he really tries to make the lectures interesting and engaging. You do have to answer poll questions during class, but they are for participation (not graded on right vs wrong ansewr).
There were 6 one page responses to a few scientific papers each that we had to complete, but we only had to choose two to be graded for content. The grading for that was pretty harsh imo. There were also two group projects (both with the same randomly chosen people) to make a scientific poster about whatever topic related to cognitive science your group wanted to do. Those did not take much time to complete and were graded fairly. The final exam was a take-home essay of sorts where we basically just had to find the right studies discussed in the lectures for the prompts and talk about them. Throughout the quarter, Idan encouraged collaboration for the responses and the final exam which was nice.