Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention?
[6:32] Attention isn’t just about what we focus on — it’s also about what our brains filter out. By i…
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Robert Sapolsky: The Neuroscience of Lies, Honesty, and Self-Control
[5;26] So when we look at the world’s ills one of the biggest sources of it is us failing to do the right thing when it’s …
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Bruce Hood: Free Will and Decision Making
[10:10] What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among o…
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V.S. Ramachandran: What Neurology can tell us about Human Nature
[50:43] Lecture by Dr. Ramachandran at Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. [Video and text source: Hindustan Times…
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Robert Bilder: Neuroscience of Behavior Change
[26:44] UCLA neuropsychologist Robert Bilder, PhD, as he discusses the current state of the art in both understanding …
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Jeremy Nathans: One Second In Your Brain
[36:34] What happens inside your head when you are asked “What is the sum of three plus two?” Nathans gives …
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The Teenage Brain
[59:12] Vassar alums Lisa Kudrow ’85 and Abby Baird ’91 have a conversation about Baird’s researc…
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Understanding the OCD Brain part 1: OCD and me
[7:31] Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the first of a series of films, he meets Pr…
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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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The neuroscience of imagination
[4:48] Imagine, for a second, a duck teaching a French class. A ping-pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin ba…
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