SciShow
Crying is Extremely Weird
If you want to learn more about how our brain reacts to other people’s emotions, start your college journey with Study Hall! Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Go to...
SciShow
Can Hypnosis Actually Change Your Brain?
What exactly is hypnosis? Some people think it's just a fun trick for magic shows, but can it actually make you do things against your will? Learn all this and more with Michael Aranda in a new episode of SciShow!
SciShow
Now We Can Turn Your Thoughts Into Reality
How is it that you can be looking at a distinct object in front of you, yet picture something entirely different in your mind? The inner workings of what’s happening in our brains to allow this is a puzzle that scientists are now...
SciShow
The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
SciShow
The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
SciShow
P-values Broke Scientific Statistics—Can We Fix Them?
A little over a decade ago, a neuroscientist found "significant activation" in the neural tissue of a dead fish. While it didn't prove the existence of zombie fish, it did point out a huge statistical problem.
SciShow
What Neuroscience Can Learn from Meditation
Meditation methods and the scientific method are teaming up to explore some of the deepest questions about our existence and human nature.
SciShow
Dinosaurs Had a Bloodsucking Enemy
This week, scientists revealed a sample of amber containing an extinct tick that fed on dinosaurs. Unfortunately, we can't take a blood sample from it and make Jurassic Park a reality, but it can still tell us a lot about how dinosaurs...
SciShow
Now We Can Turn Your Thoughts Into Reality
How is it that you can be looking at a distinct object in front of you, yet picture something entirely different in your mind? The inner workings of what’s happening in our brains to allow this is a puzzle that scientists are now...
SciShow
The Science of Hypnosis
Hypnosis: that's just a fun gimmick for stage shows and plot twists, right? Well, turns out there might be more to it.
SciShow
How Some People Echolocate Like Bats
Animals like bats and dolphins navigate the world using echolocation, but there’s also another animal capable of such a feat: humans.
SciShow
Is Coding a Math Skill or a Language Skill? Neither? Both?
There are aspects of computer code that look like language and some that seem more like algebra, and since we may be headed for a future where many people will need to learn to code, researchers are interested in figuring out how exactly...
Institute of Human Anatomy
How Much of Your Brain Do You Actually Use?
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how scientists and medical professionals know with certainty, that we use 100% of our brain.
Curated Video
Speaking with Space
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) discusses the growing research overlap of sign language linguistics with modern neuroscience.
Curated Video
Can AI Change Your Memories? | Neurofeedback Therapy, Explained
Neurofeedback therapy could replace exposure therapy for people with trauma-related psychiatric conditions. But will it work?
Curated Video
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes the basics of how an fMRI machine works and what it’s like to conduct brain-imaging experiments.
Curated Video
The Sociology of Cognitive Science
Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) gives her view on how psychology has evolved due to the influence of modern neuroscience.
Institute of Human Anatomy
Learning Anatomy Effectively with Kenhub: Exploring the Rotator Cuff Muscles
In this video, the instructor introduces Kenhub, an anatomical educator software platform that offers video lectures, quizzes, and anatomical atlases. The instructor demonstrates how to navigate the platform and shows how it can be used...
Curated Video
The Impact of Touch on the Brain
Human touch has a huge impact on our brains and bodies. Learn how touch is processed by the brain and how the body responds to the sensation.
Science360
OpenfMRI allows neuroscientists to share brain research data
Researchers around the world can compare notes on one of the most powerful tools available for imaging human brain function, the fMRI, thanks to support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). An fMRI is a functional magnetic...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists claim they can see how the brain express loneliness: report
Lonely people develop neural patterns in their brains that are distinct from the patterns of sociable people, according to new research.
Neuro Transmissions
I participated in a research study. Here's what it was like
At some point, you've probably seen signs calling for research study participants. But did you ever take a stub and call the number? What does that even look like? It can be a scary thing to hop into a study as a participant. But it...
Neuro Transmissions
The Neuroscience of Language
Letês use our words to talk about words - how does our brain process language? Join us this week as Alie dives into some of what we know about the neuroscience of language, and some of what we donêt know, too! NOTE: Pardon the green...