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5:00
Michael S. A. Graziano
What is consciousness?
6:10
Maryam Alimardani
Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body?
4:46
Robyn J. Crook
How do animals experience pain?
4:33
Andrey Vyshedskiy
The neuroscience of imagination
3:54
Clay Routledge
Why do we feel nostalgia?
4:41
Steven Zheng
How does anesthesia work?
4:43
Alex Gendler
The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human?
4:29
Margee Kerr
Why is being scared so fun?
5:51
Nathan S. Jacobs
How do schools of fish swim in harmony?
4:17
Katherine Hampsten
How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it)
5:22
Amy Adkins
Why do we dream?
4:00
Madhumita Murgia
How stress affects your brain
4:27
Sharon Horesh Bergquist
How stress affects your body
19:26
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
4:04
Catharine Young
How memories form and how we lose them
4:55
Dr. Bishop
Do animals have language?
5:13
Bryan Rasmussen
Inside the minds of animals
16:09
Jim Al-Khalili
How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions
4:20
Dasha Savage
How plants tell time
7:00
Lilian Chen
How I responded to sexism in gaming with empathy
4:46
Elizabeth Margulis
Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head
5:11
Gil Weinberg
Can robots be creative?
21:50
Donald Hoffman
Do we see reality as it is?
4:33
Alex Gendler
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
4:12
Alexandra Horowitz
How do dogs "see" with their noses?
5:18
Nathan Jacobs
How spontaneous brain activity keeps you alive
5:20
Ted Altschuler
The great brain debate
5:38
Danko Nikoli?
Ideasthesia: How do ideas feel?
5:26
Noah Zandan
The language of lying
4:16
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Why we love repetition in music
5:10
Sam Kean
What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
2:47
James Zucker
How do you know you exist?
5:03
Nathan S. Jacobs
How optical illusions trick your brain
18:37
David Chalmers
How do you explain consciousness?
3:40
Michael Molina
What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?
4:34
Ami Angelowicz
The terrors of sleep paralysis
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