Want to see what a real brain looks like? This video is a demonstration of parts of the cerebral cortex by Dr Sanjoy Sanyal, Associate Professor and Course Director of Neuroscience, Medical University of the Americas, Nevis.
Category: Video Content
Brain Plasticity
How to make good decisions
The cognitive subconscious, otherwise known as the “felt sense” or gut feeling, is activated when strategizing decisions. Watch as Daniel Goleman talks about brain activity and good decision-making in this short video.
Silencing illusion
Check out this award-winning video, a demonstration of silencing* – an illusion that shows it’s hard to notice when moving objects change.
The illusion, titled “Silencing awareness of change by background motion,” was the recent recipient of Best Illusion of the Year contest. Jordan Suchow, a Harvard University graduate student, and George Alvarez, an assistant professor in Harvard’s psychology department, created the winning entry.
Please read the instructions below
Keep your eyes fixed on the small white mark in the center. At first, the ring is stationary and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing. A few seconds later, the ring begins to rotate and the dots suddenly appear to stop changing. (Or, more precisely, they appear to change much less than when the dots are motionless.)
But play the movie again, this time looking directly at one of the dots and following it as the ring rotates. You will see that, in fact, the dots had been changing at the same rate the whole time, even during the rotation—you just didn’t notice it. This failure to detect that moving objects are changing is silencing.
References
*Suchow, J.W., & Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Motion silences awareness of visual change Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.019
Dalai Lama adresses neuroscience conference
Last week the Dalai Lama addressed an Irish audience at the University of Limerick and he spoke of the need for more neuroscientific research into emotions and the health benefits of cultivating a more compassionate and loving outlook in life.
In this video, His Holiness, gives his inaugural address at the 16th Convention of Acadamecia Eurasiana Neurochirugica in Mumbai, India, on February 18th, 2011.
Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain!
Interesting talk by Richard J Davidson from the University of Wisconsin – Madison on neuroplasticity and personal transformation.
The neuroscience of emotions
Google Tech Talks
September 16, 2008
ABSTRACT
The ability to recognize and work with different emotions is fundamental to psychological flexibility and well-being. Neuroscience has contributed to the understanding of the neural bases of emotion, emotion regulation, and emotional intelligence, and has begun to elucidate the brain mechanisms involved in emotion processing. Of great interest is the degree to which these mechanisms demonstrate neuroplasticity in both anatomical and functional levels of the brain.
Speaker: Dr. Phillippe Goldin
Brain Anatomy and Functions
I came across this 3D animation showing the anatomy and function of the brain – an excellent primer for brain beginners.
See inside your brain in real time
Here’s a short video describing how recent advances in brain imaging with fMRI which allows you watch activity in discrete parts of the brain – for instance when in pain can allow you control it. If true, the implications of this finding are staggering …and liberating for those with seemingly intractable emotional issues.
inside-the-brain.com 