One neuroscientist’s deep dive into perception and reality | Christof Koch
Adults NeuroscienceEverything you experience is filtered through your brain, and everyone’s brain is different. Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains how understanding this can deepen your connection to the world around you.
Professor Answers Neurodiversity Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Adults NeuroscienceProfessor Matt Lerner, PhD joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about neurodiversity. What are some signs of autism?
Brain Activation Exercises
Kids NeuroscienceFollow along with the exercises to activate your brain!
What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?
Adults NeuroscienceThe number of people with Parkinson's Disease has doubled in just 25 years, but its rise has been much worse in some places than in others.
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.
How Close Are We To Uploading Our Minds?
Youth NeuroscienceInvestigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world.
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.
Braille: What Is It Like To Read Without Sight?
Youth NeuroscienceIn this video Red Szell, who lost his sight several years ago, explores what effect learning to read Braille can have on your brain.
How Does Your Brain Respond To Pain
Youth NeuroscienceOuch! Everyone experiences pain -- but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different ways?
How Playing An Instrument Benefits Your Brain
Youth NeuroscienceWhen you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active.