How Fear Is Wired In Our Brains
[6:12] Your brain is an extremely complex organ that has so many things happening in it it’s hard to completely co…
MORESteven Pinker: A.I. Apocalypse: More Myth Than Reality
[2:27] Steven Pinker believes there’s some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopoca…
MOREFrom retina to cortex: An unexpected division of labor.
[3:21] Lee et al. “Topology of ON and OFF inputs in visual cortex enables an invariant columnar architecture…
MOREVisualization of newly formed synapses with unprecedented resolution
[2:24] MPFI scientists optimized a spatiotemporally controlled method that induces and visualizes the formation of …
MOREStephen Wiltshire: Artistic Savant!
[2:48] For over 30 years, the name Stephen Wiltshire has been synonymous with finely-detailed, vigorous pen and ink dr…
MOREThe Neurobiology of Evil
[5:28] Thanks to MRI and fMRI brain scans, we now know much more about how damage to or deficiencies in certain parts of th…
MORETest Your Brain’s “Physics Engine”
[0:55] Play a game developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University to prove humans have an innate sense of how the p…
MOREBeing overweight ages people’s brains
[1:16] The brains of overweight people look “10 years older” than those of leaner peers, a study has found…
MOREHow optical illusions trick your brain
[5:18] Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actual…
MOREHow playing an instrument benefits your brain
[4:44] When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an in…
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