Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
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Vertical progression through the human brain
3D Brain Anatomy
This 3D animation shows the anatomy and function of the brain using color coded areas.
This is your brain on tango
Interesting video of how listening to tango music activates the brain.
Based on fMRI and computer modelling, red = high activation and blue = low activation.
This is your brain on Twitter
See what David J. Linden, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has to say about how digital media activates the pleasure circuits in our brain.
Inside the storytelling brain
I was reading an article in the Guardian newspaper recently on how important stories are to our human and societal interactions Most of our ways of understanding the world are narratives of one form or another, whether serious scientific stories conceptual metaphors, or the kind of tales we use to justify our choices in life.
Watch as cognitive neuroscientist, Michael Gazzaniga ponders our need to hear and tell coherent stories about ourselves.
The Neurobiology and Mathematics of Consciousness
In this talk, held at Singularity Summit 2011, held last October in New York, neuroscientist Christof Koch discusses The Neurobiology and Mathematics of Consciousness.
Typing with brain waves
Fascinating video from the Mayo Clinic on research into communicating via brain waves.
Medicine’s future? There’s an app for that
In this video recorded at TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient’s bedside.
Neuroplasticity
For decades, scientists thought that the adult human brain was static and unchanging. But in the last few decades, we have learned that the adult brain is more dynamic than we ever imagined!
This short film was created for the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
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