One neuroscientist’s deep dive into perception and reality | Christof Koch
AdultsNeuroscienceScienceEverything 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
AdultsEducationNeurosciencePsychologyProfessor Matt Lerner, PhD joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about neurodiversity. What are some signs of autism?
What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?
AdultsHealthNeuroscienceThe 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
AdultsBiologyHealthNeuroscienceReality 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
AdultsMindfulnessNeurosciencePsychologyScienceWhen 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
AdultsHealthNeuroscienceExplore 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”
AdultsEducationScienceTechnologyNeurosciencePsychologyThere 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
AdultsBiologyHealthHumanNeuroscienceBiologist 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
AdultsBiologyHealthPsychologyNeuroscienceThere are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
Neuroscientist debunks ‘lizard brain’ myth | Lisa Feldman Barrett
AdultsAnimalsBiologyHumanNeurosciencePsychologyPlato 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.
How to Calm Your Anxiety, From a Neuroscientist
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyMental HealthNeuroscienceWhat 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 fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceNeuroscienceTravel 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
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyNeuroscienceLanguageScienceThe 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
AdultsAnimalsFilmNatureScienceNeuroscienceThe 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?
AdultsNeurosciencePsychologyScienceBiologyResearch 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?
AdultsLifeScienceSelfNeuroscienceExplore the theories of human consciousness and the science of how your brain works to create a conscious experience.