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[1:14:21] Many of us go through daily life on autopilot, without being fully aware of our conscious experience. Neuros…

[5:30] We’ve got two perfectly good hands attached to two perfectly good arms, so why do most people prefer to use …

[15:21] How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. …

[2:46] Multitasking is a myth, says McGill University Psychology Professor Daniel Levitin. Switching focus across t…

[2:31] Dr. Rick Hecht shows empirical evidence suggesting the strength and stability of someone’s social life may a…

[2:40] Dr. Rick Hecht explains how cortisol, a hormone commonly associated with stress, impacts the body, showing it t…

[5:10] In this video Dr. Bigler and I talk about the temporal lobes of the brain. The temporal lobe here, on this lateral s…

[3:19] In this video Dr. Erin Bigler and I are talking about the amygdala. The amygdala is again another one of those stru…

[4:50] Bazelot et al. dissect synaptic mechanisms orchestrating the information flow from the ventral hippocampus t…

[5:07] Barron et al. show that otherwise silent cortical memories are unmasked in the human brain when the concentrati…