Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking
[9:52] Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-s…
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Structures of neural tissue at nanometer resolution
[5:53] Harvard University’s Jeff Lichtman and colleagues use automated EM technologies to probe the structur…
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What’s harder to understand, a human brain or the universe?
[3:20] The human brain is immensely complex, containing more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. …
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Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness
[1:14:21] Many of us go through daily life on autopilot, without being fully aware of our conscious experience. Neuros…
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Frontal Lobe Damage Impacts Behavior
[5:07] In this video Dr. Bigler points out certain areas of the brain on an MRI scan of a patient that has been is a serious c…
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Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication
[4:50] Bazelot et al. dissect synaptic mechanisms orchestrating the information flow from the ventral hippocampus t…
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Cortical Memories in Humans Are Re-expressed When GABA Is Reduced
[5:07] Barron et al. show that otherwise silent cortical memories are unmasked in the human brain when the concentrati…
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How Dogs Interpret Our Praise
[0:59] “Who’s a good boy?” Your dog construes your words and happy tone to know you mean him. [Video source: Scien…
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Can You Live With Only Half Of Your Brain?
[4:04] People have been known to survive with huge pieces of their brains missing, but just which parts could we live wit…
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New “Neural Dust” sensor could be implanted in the body
[1:50] University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be im…
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