Skip to main content

Home/ IB Psychology Crane/ Group items tagged animals

Rss Feed Group items tagged

John Crane

RSA Animate - The Divided Brain - YouTube - 0 views

  •  
    In this new RSA Animate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society
John Crane

What's the point of sleep? | Pete Etchells | Science | theguardian.com - 0 views

  •  
    Despite a wealth of research, we still don't know the purpose of sleep. A new animal study suggests one possible function: to promote the repair of support structures in the brain
John Crane

Selfish traits not favoured by evolution, study shows - 0 views

  •  
    Humans and animals could not evolve in a co-operative environment by being selfish, scientists say
John Crane

Shane Koyczan: To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

  •  
    By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and … different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators). Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson.
John Crane

BBC News - 'Memories' pass between generations - 0 views

  •  
    Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest.
John Crane

A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory. - 0 views

  •  
    Can we edit the content of our memories? It's a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT. Essentially, the pair shoot a laser beam into the brain of a living mouse to activate and manipulate its memory. In this unexpectedly amusing talk they share not only how, but - more importantly - why they do this
John Crane

Attracting a mate | Preening - 0 views

  •  
    While many people assume their choice to wear skinny jeans or grow a beard is based on personal taste or fashion trends, many scientists believe these decisions also reflect our primal need to attract a mate and breed to ensure the survival of our species.
John Crane

It's not the morphine, it's the size of the cage: Rat Park experiment upturns conventio... - 0 views

  •  
    It's not the morphine, it's the size of the cage: Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addiction
John Crane

A new model of empathy: The rat - The Washington Post - 0 views

  •  
    A study by Science/AAAS shows that rats preferred freeing caged rats rather than eating food placed in the cage, suggesting that the rats show empathy, a trait only previously known to primates.
John Crane

Chimps' 'girl talk' uses more negative gestures - 0 views

  •  
    Female chimpanzees are more "negative" when communicating with other females, research has found.
John Crane

What is truth?: A la recherche du temps inconnu | The Economist - 0 views

  •  
    Artificially created memories can be just as strong as real ones
1 - 20 of 20
Showing 20 items per page