TEDxSanDiego 2011 - Kurt Gray - Mind Perception
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Dr. Kurt Gray's social psychology research explores the aspects of mind and perception. How we perceive experiences and others can change the amount of pain or pleasure in our lives. His talk encourages us to consider how we can make our lives a little sweeter.
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- -: TEDxSanDiego 2011 - Kurt Gray - Mind Perception
March 3, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Dr. Kurt Gray's social psychology research explores the aspects of mind and perception. How we perceive experiences and others can change the amount of pain or pleasure in our lives. His talk encourages us to consider how we can make our lives a little sweeter.
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- -: TEDxMalibu - Dr. Narayan Srinivasa - Machines That Can Learn to Perceive
January 26, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, Principal Research Scientist and Manager at Hughes Research laboratories in Malibu, will share his research on creating perceptive machines and artificial intelligence. www.hrl.com
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- -: Why Is Science Great? It Illuminates God, Says Deepak Chopra
January 4, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/06/Deepak_Chopra_and_Leonard_Mlodinow_War_of_the_Worldviews Author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra discusses the role of science in his system of beliefs. While scientific advances in areas like medicine are important, he explains, "God is much more a...
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- -: TEDxRainier - David Horsey - Drawing from Misperceptions
December 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist David Horsey discusses how perception leads and misleads ordinary and elected people alike, and sheds light on ways to strive beyond or failing fables. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring...
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- -: Creating Emotions from Atoms
December 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/14/Leon_Cooper_Superconductivity__Other_Insoluble_Problems Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Cooper discusses his recent work in the understanding of consciousness from a material point of view. Although there is concern that this might take away from t...
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- -: "Focusing Illusions" and the Myth of California Happiness
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/28/David_Brooks_Speaks_with_Daniel_Kahneman Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the "Focusing Illusion" theory, a common human tendency to exaggerate the importance of one aspect of an idea or event. For example, says Kahneman, not a...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD - Brain: Memory and Multitasking
April 17, 2011 (about 13 years ago)A mix of science and art - brain scientist and nature photographer. Dr. Adam Gazzaley is a rare mix of science and art. He now directs a cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, which focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms of memory and attention in humans. In ad...
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- -: Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
October 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequence...
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