What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
[4:08] You may not be familiar with Borderline Personality Disorder, but two percent of American adults suffer from th…
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Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner
[15:04] Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patt…
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Sequential Dependencies in Driver Response Times
[5:03] In collaboration with Professor Michael C. Mozer, Professor of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Sc…
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Oliver Sacks: Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)
[5:04] Dr. Sacks talks about people (including himself) who have neurological difficulty recognizing faces, and how …
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Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
[9:59] What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neuro…
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Gary Marcus: KLUGE – The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
[1:01:31] The Authors@Google program welcomed Dr. Gary Marcus to Google’s New York office to discuss his new bo…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Neurology and the Passion for Art
[1:29:29] Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic bound…
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Profile Pictures – Science of Attraction
[8:36] With social networking and online dating becoming more and more popular, the images we choose to represent ours…
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Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil
[23:10] Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic uns…
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Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
[23:42] Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient …
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