Spike Timing in Motor Control
[1:00:32] Abstract: Last two-three decades have convinced the computational neuroscience community that sensory n…
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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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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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The Sciences of Consciousness: Progress and Problems
[1:17:37] Christof Koch – Allen Institute for Brain Science lecture [Video and text source: Center for Brains,…
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What It’s Like Inside Our Minds
[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …
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Sara Freeman: Autism & the oxytocin system
[2:04] Sara Freeman is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, who uses the Allen Human Bra…
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What is Chemical Evolution?
[9:14] Have you ever wondered how life first got started on Earth? So do scientists! Though the question has not yet been …
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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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How does your body know what time it is?
[5:08] Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball …
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