Hippocampus – How the Brain Saves Memory
[2:24] In this video Dr. Bigler and I are talking about the hippocampus the hippocampus receives input from all of corte…
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Anthony Wagner: Brain Patterns and the Mind
[12:55] How do we represent places? How do we remember people we’ve met before? Recent advances in functional br…
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Alzheimer’s brain dissection
[5:03] Comparison of a brain from an individual who was a victim of Alzheimer’s, to that from a normal individual…
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How playing sports benefits your body … and your brain
[3:46] The victory of the underdog. The last minute penalty shot that wins the tournament. The training montage. Many p…
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How Memory Works
[7:15] Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain ev…
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The Amygdala and Unconscious Memories
[3:24] The amygdala is responsible for implicit memories, but these are different from what Freud called the unconsci…
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Aniruddh Patel: Music’s Effects on the Brain
[2:56] The way you perceive and understand a movie is influenced by the soundtrack playing (or in some cases, not playin…
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Kerry Ressler: The neuroscience of emotion
[19:17] Fear is a powerful, yet primitive, emotion that is also the root of much violence, war and suffering. Understan…
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Does Exercise Enhance Creativity?
[3:21] Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki is hard at work in her lab experimenting with a new hypothesis: Can you stimulate cr…
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How Exactly Do Our Brains Recognize Faces?
[4:03] The human brain has an incredible capacity to recognize and remember faces. But how exactly does facial recogni…
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