TED Talks
Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
"Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance --...
Cerebellum
The Human Body Nervous Systems - The Five Senses And Damage To The Nervous System
Experts in neuroscience help us understand why the human brain is a marvel of structure and function. This video looks at how the nervous system allows our five senses to opperate, it looks at the specific processes which allow us to...
Flame Media
Standard Senses vs Samurai Senses
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Flame Media
Improving Your Sense Of Touch
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Flame Media
Cracking a 3 wheel safe using just my senses
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Neuro Transmissions
Your Sixth Sense
You may not think about it all that much, but we all have a sixth sense - your sense of "proprioception". This is how we move our body parts without looking. But don't take it for granted. Without it, we'd be a hot mess. Imagine how...
Neuro Transmissions
New Sense Discovered?
A recent study discovered a new cell in mice used for olfactory detection that may give them a sort of spidey sense. The results could mean big things for how we think about smell! On this weekês episode of Neuro Transmissions, Alie...
SciShow
3 Senses You Didn’t Know You Had
At some point, you’ve probably learned about the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. However, the classic list doesn't account for all the sensations we experience and use to navigate the world around us! Hosted by: Hank...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Smell?
What is that smell? It smells like an old factory. Oh wait, nope, itês just your olfactory system. We canêt neglect one of our more scent-sitive senses. Our sense of smell not only gives us the ability to distinguish different odors, it...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Feel?
Ouch! That hurt! When your baby brother bites your finger, how do you feel it? How do you know whatês hot or whatês cold? How can you tell if something is soft or scratchy or damp? Most of all, how do we feel pain? Weêre talking about...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We See?
I can see clearly now the rain is gone...oh, and because I know all about the VISUAL SYSTEM! Going beyond the physics of the eye and how light works, how much do you know about how visual information gets sent to the brain? Alie...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Taste?
You know how babies put everything in their mouth? Theyêre actually exploring with taste! Thanks to our gustatory system, we can detect millions of distinct tastes through combinations of our different taste receptors, kind of like how...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Hear?
Say whaaaaaat? Yep, it's about time we talk about the auditory system. Your ears are amazing things. Sure, they're a bit floppy, but they help us navigate the word around us just as much as our eyes. In the words of a wise man: To hear...
Great Big Story
Restoring Touch, Breakthroughs in Prosthetic Technology
New ReviewDiscover how groundbreaking research is bringing the sense of touch back to prosthetic limbs, transforming lives.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What would happen if you lost your sense of touch? | Antonio Cataldo
We don't often think of touch as being a vital part of movement, but touch is one part of a network that oversees all the sensations arising from the surface and interior of our bodies. Touch, pain, temperature, and our spatial awareness...
World Science Festival
The Believing Brain: Evolution, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Instinct
God, they say, is in the details. But could God also be in our frontal lobes? Every culture from the dawn of humankind has imagined planes of existence beyond the reach of our senses, spiritual domains that shape our Earthly experiences....
Curated Video
How Our Brains Learn Consciousness
Neuroscience is abound with debates over the nature of consciousness. Which makes sense, because it’s a very abstract idea. We know we are conscious, but theories of why, how and what brain activity causes it are still simply that:...
TED Talks
Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?
What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? Philosopher Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.
TED Talks
Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see
Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual...
TED Talks
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of...
Curated Video
Why Getting Dizzy is Kinda Like Temporary Brain Damage
We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question “why do we get dizzy?” and in the process we learned about some very strange and hilarious ways to...
TED Talks
TED: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset | Meron Gribetz
What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world? With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible for users to see, grab and move holograms just like...
TED Talks
TED: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? | Nita Farahany
Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk,...
Curated Video
How Your Brain Makes Time Pass Fast or Slow
Time passes for all of us at the same rate of one second per second. But why does it sometimes feel like time is passing so fast, or so slowly? Especially during COVID? Let’s learn about how our brains keep track of and try to make sense...