Darold A. Treffert: Extraordinary People -The Savant Syndrome
[1:05:37] Extraordinary People: The Savant Syndrome – Darold A. Treffert, M.D. Part of the 10th Annual Interna…
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How Does Meditation Change the Brain?
[2:23] Meditation can sharpen attention, strengthen memory and improve other mental abilities. Scientific America…
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Peter Doolittle: How your “working memory” makes sense of the world
[9:29] “Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow …
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Lawrence Krauss: The Secret Life of Physicists
[1:06:34] From NECSS 2014, noted cosmologist Professor Lawrence Krauss brings us inside the secret world of physicis…
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Michio Kaku: Reading Minds, Recording Dreams, and Brain Imaging
[5:58] Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1…
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The Learning Brain
[7:02] One of the 9 films available in Successful Learners. [Source: The Learning Pod YouTube link]…
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Human v Chimp: Memory test
[3:43] 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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A Conversation With Koko
[4:40] Wonderful clip of Koko the gorilla communicating almost human-like with her caregiver. [Source: Beth Gallagh…
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What Is Asperger’s Syndrome?
[6:43] This Ask the Expert video provides an overview of Asperger’s Syndrome and offers insights into the chara…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Illusions, delusions and the brain
[1:25:14] This lecture by Prof. V.S. Ramachandran (University of California, San Diego) will focus on body image and m…
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