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4:49
Alex Rosenthal
Exploring other dimensions
21:46
Russell Foster
Why do we sleep?
5:25
Matt Danzico
An exercise in time perception
3:41
Richard E. Cytowic
What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia
9:29
Peter Doolittle
How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
14:59
John Searle
Our shared condition -- consciousness
7:16
Mark Changizi
Why do we see illusions?
19:10
Guillaume Néry
The exhilarating peace of freediving
4:02
Peggy Andover
The difference between classical and operant conditioning
2:58
Colm Kelleher
What is color?
3:44
Bradley Voytek
Diagnosing a zombie: brain and behavior (Part two)
3:36
Bradley Voytek and Tim Verstynen
Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one)
14:26
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
12:07
Chris Anderson (TED)
Questions no one knows the answers to
15:24
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The long reach of reason
19:59
Daniel Wolpert
The real reason for brains
5:29
Adam Ostrow
After your final status update
18:42
Antonio Damasio
The quest to understand consciousness
22:17
Simon Lewis
Don't take consciousness for granted
14:50
Henry Markram
A brain in a supercomputer
16:30
Beau Lotto
Optical illusions show how we see
6:32
Jim Fallon
Exploring the mind of a killer
18:19
Jill Bolte Taylor
My stroke of insight
23:34
VS Ramachandran
3 clues to understanding your brain
24:45
Dan Dennett
Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools
23:07
Michael Merzenich
Growing evidence of brain plasticity
21:48
Dan Dennett
The illusion of consciousness
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