David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
[20:38] As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” say…
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How we Taste: INFRAMTEMPORAL FOSSA
[5:01] How we Taste: INFRAMTEMPORAL FOSSA [Video and text source: UBC Medicine – Educational Media YouTube cha…
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Alva Noë: Why a Mind-Body Problem?
[10:08] How does the brain produce the mind? This is one of the most difficult problems in science, because how can physi…
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The Limbic System
[26:37] This video discusses the basic anatomy and physiology of the various regions of the brain related to emotion. […
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Rodolfo Llinas: How are Brains Structured?
[9:52] As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just as…
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New Insight Into Pain Sensation
[2:14] Interesting research on astrocytes, a type of glial cell within the brain and how it plays a role in pain percep…
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David Eagleman: The sixth sense
[14:00] One of the leading names in neuroscience discusses his experiments in trying to create a new sense. [Source: We…
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From retina to cortex: An unexpected division of labor.
[3:21] Lee et al. “Topology of ON and OFF inputs in visual cortex enables an invariant columnar architecture…
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Rose Eveleth: The science of spiciness
[3:54] When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire — because that’s esse…
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What is Synesthesia?
[3:57]] At least 3 percent of the population is thought to have some form of synesthesia—the phenomenon of blended se…
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