Steven Novella – The Neuroscience of Skepticism
[37:45] Dr. Steve Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the preside…
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AP Psychology: Perception
[4:06] Psychology lesson on perception. [Source: Educator.com YouTube link]…
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AP Psychology: Threshold & Signal Detection Theory
[6:29] Threshold & Signal Detection Theory [Source: Educator.com YouTube link]…
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Daniel Bergner: What Do Women Really Want?
[17:24] Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of four books of nonficti…
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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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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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Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta
[5:13] Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology. Science present…
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David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust
[14:02] What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist …
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
[20:37] Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel K…
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Eleanor Maguire: The Neuroscience of Memory
[1:07:12] There are two demos in this talk that you can try at home exploring how we perceive and recollect visual scenes…
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