TED Talks
Beau Lotto and Cirque du Soleil: How we experience awe -- and why it matters
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto conducted an ambitious study with Cirque du Soleil on the emotion of awe and its psychological and behavioral benefits. In this talk and live performance, he shares some of their findings -- and stands back as...
TED Talks
Vilayanur Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as...
Curated Video
Comment nos émotions influencent nos décisions
Comment nos émotions influencent nos décisions Neuroscientiste Julie Grezes est motivée par l'idée que le cerveau humain est un « cerveau social » permettant aux êtres humains de communiquer et de collaborer avec de nombreux autres...
Curated Video
Armin Falk: Inequality and the Challenge of Employment 1/3
Armin Falk, Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn speaking at the panel entitled "Inequality and the Challenge of Employment" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in...
Curated Video
What Makes Some People Give Up So Quickly?
Ever wonder why some people give up really easily and other people can keep going strong even when it looks they will fail anyway? That’s what this I explain in this video. One reason behind giving up quickly is based on the concept of...
Curated Video
Two Things You Can Do To Stop Ruminating
The term ruminate means to run a thought over and over in your mind. This is the figurative definition. The literal definition refers to cows regurgitating their food to chew it over and over. Rumination is not a diagnosis all to itself,...
Science360
Batlab studies echolocation to learn how animals "see" with sound - Science Nation
Bat echolocation reveals more on how mammals use sensory information to thrive Description: Neuroscientist Cindy Moss is investigating how animals use sensory information to guide their behavior. Her team at Johns Hopkins University's...
Curated Video
The Mind as a Functional System
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes how psychology and neuroscience might overlap through the mind.
TED Talks
TED: How isolation fuels opioid addiction | Rachel Wurzman
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. What do Tourette syndrome, heroin addiction and social media obsession all have in common? They converge in an area...
TED Talks
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness
Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for...
Neuro Transmissions
The Birth of Psychology
Believe it or not, psychology is actually a new discipline. Itês only around 100 years old. So where did it come from? And what happened before then? Join Micah in the FIRST episode of Micah Psych to discover the underpinnings of modern...
Curated Video
Free-Will and Determinism
Are the decisions we make made freely or are they somehow determined for us? This film takes you through the issues and questions raised by the free-will / determinism debate.
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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Cognitive robotics
What is cognitive robotics? How do you model human intelligence? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 1
Curated Video
Free-Will and Determinism
How 'free' are you? Professor Patrick Haggard explains the differences between determinism and free will and we look at behavioural, psychic and neurological determinism. We then reconstruct Libet's seminal experiment showing that brain...
Curated Video
Thinking Differently is Part of Autism
Each year, thousands of children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. People with autism may learn, think, communicate, and behave in ways that are considered unorthodox, or different from what is traditionally expected. Rather...
Curated Video
How Dreaming Works
When a person lays their head down to sleep, their brain does not stop thinking. The thoughts they have while they sleep are their dreams. Sleep allows the brain to recover from the work it does during the day. While the brain recovers,...
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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Natural language processing and computer vision
How does natural language processing and computer vision applied to robots differ from the standard tasks they do in other areas? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 2
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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Psychological theory and robots
How do you give back psychological theory to the robot? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 5
Neuro Transmissions
What Are Optogenetics?
What if you could control someone's mind and make them more aggressive or less anxious or extremely hungry? Well, IT'S POSSIBLE! Optogenetics let scientists literally control the brain using light. Using whaa?? Yep, the light actually...
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Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Building entire systems
How do you go from identifying a single method to building an entire system? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 4
Curated Video
Breaking Down Barriers
Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes his long-standing interest in trying to penetrate the consciousness and feeling of animals, his optimism at the growing societal realisation of our animal nature, and the...
MinuteEarth
Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
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How Habits Change Your Brain
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Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?
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