- -: Mapping a Bird's Brain Would Take Many Google Earths
March 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/16/Mapping_the_Brain_and_Neural_Architectures Richard Hahnloser describes a significant obstacle to reconstructing neural networks of the brain. To map out the connections in a one millimeter sphere of a brain would require more data than it would take t...
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- -: Long-Term Memory and the Brain
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/28/We_Are_What_We_Remember_Memory_and_Biology Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel examines how long-term memories are formed in the brain. ----- Eric Kandel, who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is professor of bioche...
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- -: Why the Human Brain Can't Multitask
June 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, explains why the human brain struggles to process information that is presented "with the intensity and the quantity and the speed we find ourse...
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- -: Is City Living Bad for Your Brain?
July 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/27/Peter_Kareiva_Conservation_in_the_Real_World Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, cites a recent study that compared the brains of people living in rural areas to those living in cities. Interestingly, those living in rural areas...
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- -: The Secret Lives of the Brain
November 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain David Eagleman, neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, discusses the relatively minor role that the conscious mind plays in comparison to the rest of the brain. "The cons...
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- -: The Brain: A Machine Built of Conflicting Parts
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/02/David_Eagleman_Will_We_Ever_Understand_the_Brain According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, the "first misstep" in our understanding of cognition is the idea that the human brain is a unified, cohesive device. "You are not one thing," he says. "Peopl...
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- -: Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Why Our Chimp-Like Brains Lose Money on the Stock Market
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/big_picture_conference_2011 Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, describes one human tendency that can hinder successful stock trading: our preference for stories over data. When an analyst or CEO tells a convincing anecdote, he explains, stockho...
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James Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Fallon explains how a violence gene, which has a variant present in the normal population, expresses its effect on the human brain and contributes to psychopathy.
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