Recently in Lecture Category

Here is the link to the powerpoints I used for the narrative essay response.

http://www.uni.edu/~maclino/hybrid/narrative_essay.pdf

The Dutch physiologist, Franciscus Cornelis Donders, was the first person to conceive of a way to measure "thinking time", and did so in studies performed in the middle part of the 1860's. The continuation of these studies became a central part of the program of the German physiologist, Wilhelm Wundt, whose laboratory in Leipzig was a major breeding ground of the new discipline of "physiological psychology".

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reaction/index.html

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html

This guy is a crack up. Real showmanship in discussing the terminology to discuss areas / divisions of the antonomy as they relate to the brain and the visual system as he prepares his students to conduct brain dissections.

He goes on to further discuss the auditory system, brain stem, spine, olfactory system...

(October 23, 2009) Stanford Professor of psychology and neuroscience, Anthony Wagner PhD, discusses how the brain supports memory for everyday events, and will evaluate whether "mind reading" with brain imaging can detect when a person remembers the past and how this might be used as evidence in a court of law.

Includes a discussion of patient called "HM"; amnesia - real world versus hollywood; anterograde v retrograde; patient "EP"; role of the hippocampus; episodic memory; flash blub memory; subjective experience of reliving the past; brain imaging; lie detection; machine learning algorithms;

Link to India's novel use of brain scans - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/world/asia/15brainscan.html