This 7 minute video was created for school children to show them how to maximise their brains potential. It is part of an innovative teaching program by Thinkology® aimed at increasing student academic performance and reducing aggressive behaviours such as bullying and other disruptive behaviours. This video has had a significant impact on increasing students self – esteem, controlling bullying and increasing academic performance.
The Three Brains that Allow Us to Go from Thinking to Doing to Being – Joe Dispenza at TEDxTacoma
The Sentis Brain Animation Series takes you on a tour of the brain through a series of short and sharp animations. In this video, the three regions of the brain are described and how they interact as we experience the world.
People unable to speak through paralysis may one day be able to spell out their thoughts with technology being developed by Dutch scientists. The brain-scanner measures different levels of brain activity and associates each level with a letter of the alphabet.
Map designer Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city — less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. How can we learn from these mental maps to make better real ones? As a test case, he remakes the notorious Dublin bus map.
(Filmed at TEDxDublin)
Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? In this video, cognitive neuroscientist, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically “teenage” behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.
Read Montague is interested in the human dopamine system — or, as he puts it in this illuminating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, that which makes us “chase sex, food and salt” and therefore survive.
Specifically, Montague and his team at the Roanoke Brain Study are interested in how dopamine and valuation systems work when two human beings interact with each other.
“We have a behavioral superpower in our brain and it at least in part involves dopamine,” says Montague in this talk. “We can deny any instinct we have for survival for an idea. No other species can do that.”
So how do we assign value to ideas, process the gestures of those around us, make complicated decisions, and create informed judgments about each other? Montague’s lab hopes to discover much more about how these processes work by “eavesdropping” on the brains of 5,000 to 6,000 participants all over the world as they play negotiation games. It’s fascinating research that could tell us more about our social nature. Because as Montague says, “You often don’t know who you are until you see yourself in interaction with people who are close to you, people who are enemies to you, and people who are agnostic to you.”
Source: TED blog
Why is it that humans can speak but chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, cannot?
The human brain is uniquely wired to produce language. Untangling this wiring is a major frontier of brain research. Peer into the mental machinery behind language with this feature video, which visits a brain-scanning laboratory—Columbia University’s Program for Imaging and Cognitive Sciences.
Columbia neuroscientist Joy Hirsch and New York University psychologist Gary Marcus explain what researchers have learned about how our brain tackles language—and what’s left to learn.
Did you know that the brain has a joke centre? This and 9 other amazing facts about your brain are shown in this video.
Animated tour of the brain
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