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Brain

Memory masters

Investigate how your memory works, and learn a cunning trick to help memorise lots of things.

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Brain

How Do Our Brains Perceive the World Around Us? - with Anil Seth

How does our brain translate visual signals into a conscious experience?

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Brain

Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination? - with Anil Seth

How does our biology give rise to the experience of consciousness?

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Video Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans

Brain

Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans

Humans have changed their consciousness with plants for millennia; from the legally and socially acceptable consumption of

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Video What Do Our Brains Do When We're Dreaming?- with Mark Solms

Brain

What Do Our Brains Do When We're Dreaming?- with Mark Solms

Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to support the popular notion that dreams are meaningful. Fifty years later, the discovery

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Video How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter? - with Robin Hiesinger

Brain

How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter? - with Robin Hiesinger

Neurobiologists and computer scientists are trying to discover how neural networks become a brain. Will nature give us the

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Video Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe

Brain

Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe

Sleep is vital to our wellbeing. The stages of deep and dreamless slow wave sleep and vivid dreaming REM sleep both have

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Brain CHRISTMAS LECTURES

The language of life – The word (2017)

Sophie Scott asks where the human ability to use language comes from and whether there any other animals that can do anything

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Brain CHRISTMAS LECTURES

The language of life – Silent messages (2017)

Sophie Scott looks at the silent communication in the animal kingdom.

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Brain CHRISTMAS LECTURES

The language of life – Say it with sound (2017)

In the first CHRISTMAS LECTURE, Sophie Scott explores how humans and other animals use noises to communicate.

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