There are two kinds of bilingual brain - 0 views
Brain Bank Video -- National Geographic - 0 views
A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory. - 0 views
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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
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Talk Video | TED - 0 views
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Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another - by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.
Why antisocial youth are less able to see perspective of others -- ScienceDaily - 0 views
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. Researchers have pinpointed a possible explanation: Their brain regions responsible for social information processing and impulse control are less developed
Being bilingual gives brains a boost - 0 views
That gut feeling - 1 views
Tali Sharot: The optimism bias | TED - 0 views
The Mind in the World: Culture and the Brain - 1 views
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How the "outside" affects the "inside" is at the heart of many of the deepest psychological questions. In this fast-paced survey of research on how culture shapes cognition, Nalini Ambady examines the neural evidence for socio-cultural influences on thinking, judgment, and behavior. She does this by giving us numerous examples of group differences in core human capacities that are shaped by how "one's people" engage socially. I'm pleased to be able to share this piece with members of APS.
What Does Mindfulness Meditation Do to Your Brain? - 0 views
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