Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day
Adults NeuroscienceReality is not real. Your world is a prediction. Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you.
Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't - Adam Zeman
Adults NeuroscienceWhen reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," most readers visualize the queen’s croquet game play out in their heads.
What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild
Adults NeuroscienceExplore how pulling an all-nighter can impact your cognitive function, and find out what happens to your brain when you don't sleep.
Why Reality is a “Controlled Hallucination”
Adults NeuroscienceThere have always been hints that the brain wasn’t evolved to track objective reality, but a new, incredibly popular theory in neuroscience takes everything one step further. Not only is your brain not built for reality, you’ve never even experienced it. Noted Science Zaddy Kyle Hill explains “predictive processing.”
Do Gut Microbes Control Your Personality? | Kathleen McAuliffe | TED
Adults NeuroscienceBiologist Kathleen McAuliffe dives into new research that suggests certain bacteria in your gut can influence major parts of who you are, from your personality to life-changing neurological disorders.
Can you trust your memory? This neuroscientist isn’t so sure | André Fenton
Adults NeuroscienceThere are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
What the biggest brain on Earth can do - David Gruber and Shane Gero
Adults NeuroscienceExplore how sperm whales use an array of complex vocalizations to communicate with each other, hunt, and assess their surroundings.
Neuroscientist debunks ‘lizard brain’ myth | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Adults NeurosciencePlato famously described the human psyche as two horses and a charioteer: One horse represented instincts, the other represented emotions, and the charioteer was the rational mind that controlled them.
The man who lost his sense of touch
Adults NeuroscienceExplore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.
How to Calm Your Anxiety, From a Neuroscientist
Adults NeuroscienceWhat if you could transform your anxiety into something you can actually use during your work day? Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares two evidence-based activities -- breathing and movement -- that can soothe your nervous system and fuel creativity and connection.
The Disease You Will Never Survive
Adults NeuroscienceA simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.
The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer
Adults NeuroscienceExplore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.
How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew
Adults NeuroscienceTravel into the brain to see how its network of neurons transmit your thoughts and what factors determine how quickly you think.
How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
Adults NeuroscienceThe average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second.
Elephants' Incredible Intelligence | Wild Files with Maddie Moate | BBC Earth
Adults NeuroscienceThe largest land mammal, elephants have super-sized brains and display incredible emotional intelligence. In this episode of Wild Files, we get an intimate glimpse at elephants' social ties and unique character.
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
Adults NeuroscienceResearch has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
What is consciousness?
Adults NeuroscienceExplore the theories of human consciousness and the science of how your brain works to create a conscious experience.
Non-Invasive Brain Surgery
Adults NeuroscienceScientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.
Could You Live Without A Body?
Adults NeuroscienceCould uploading our consciousness to the internet be the key to living forever?
Why You Don't Want Invisibility
Adults NeuroscienceInvisibility is always part of the most desired superpowers argument, but is there more downside to it than meets the eye?