AP Psychology: Biological Bases of Behavior
[23:37] A guide to the biological basis of human behavior. [Source: Educator.com YouTube link]…
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Antonio Damasio: When Emotions Make Better Decisions
[3:22] Antonio Damasio, noted researcher and professor of neuroscience at USC, explains how emotions are integral to …
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How diet can affect brain health
[3:22] Michael Mosley meets Professor Mark Mattson. His work with mice at the National Institue on Ageing, has produce…
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Olaf Blanke: Out-of body experiences, consciousness, and cognitive neuroprosthetics
[18:54] What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neuro…
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Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
[16:00] Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just …
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Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
[21:46] Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we k…
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Joseph LeDoux: The Emotional Brain
[53:57] The study of emotion has been hampered by a fixation on feelings. Rather than imposing concepts based on human i…
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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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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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