Lab-Grown Meat: Better for Animals, Better for the Environment
[1:15] Lab-grown meat is coming our way soon… and we may even be able to afford it. [Video and text source: Futuris…
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Chimp vs Human – Working Memory Test
[3:42] Ayumu the chimpanzee has made headlines around the world for his ability to beat humans on memory tests, in both s…
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Consciousness and Intelligence Lecture
[1:23:13] MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines Moderator: Shimon Ullman PhD ’77, Samy and Ruth Cohn Pr…
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Mice made to kill using mind control lasers
[0:55] Mice were genetically engineered so neurons in the amygdala that control hunting and killing were activated by …
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Science Meets Music – The Principals of Collective Behavior
[1:15:23] Ingenuity and dedication: essential elements for both Science and Art. The musician and the scientist requ…
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Synaptic plasticity – How synapses spark
[8:00] Learning takes place on a synaptic level. Whenever we learn something new, changes in the signal transfer funct…
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Richard Huganir: Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying learning in the brain
[38:17] Richard Huganir – Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience; Directo…
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Understanding the OCD Brain part 2: Animal research at Cambridge
[15:10] Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the second of a series of films, he meets …
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Bees play golf
[0:51] Bumblebees have learned to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, stretching what was thought possible for small…
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Uta Frith: Theory of Mind
[10:55] Uta Frith discusses ‘Theory of mind’ and how autistic persons do not have that capability. [Vide…
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