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Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Channel | updated May 10, 2013

MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. We combine these disciplines to study specific aspects of the brain and mind including: vision, movement systems, learning and memory, neural and cognitive development, language and reasoning. Working collaboratively, we apply our expertise, tools, and techniques to address and answer both fundamental and universal questions about how the brain and mind work.

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Chair for Afternoon Session
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Chair for Afternoon Session

Li-Huei Tsai, recorded 12/5/12

Cognitive control networks in the aging brain
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Cognitive control networks in the aging brain

David Ziegler, recorded 12/5/12

How Does Emotion Affect Explicit Memory?
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How Does Emotion Affect Explicit Memory?

Elizabeth A. Kensinger, recorded 12/5/12

MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen
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MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen

Berkmen discusses her research with Professors Utkan Demirci and Ed Boyden in developing 3-D brain tissue constructs.

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Neuron imaging
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Neuron imaging

Researchers have developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.

A Robot for Analyzing Single Cells in the Living Brain
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A Robot for Analyzing Single Cells in the Living Brain

Researchers at Georgia Tech and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting ...

Welcome to Your Brain
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Welcome to Your Brain

A brief introduction to the brain and its basic building block — the remarkable neuron. Produced by MIT PhD students Alex Rivest/Steve Ramirez.  

Meet Guoping Feng - Investigator, McGovern Institute
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Meet Guoping Feng - Investigator, McGovern Institute

Guoping Feng, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, studies the development and function of synapses and their disruption in brain disorders.  He uses molecular genetics combined with behavioral and electrophysiological methods to ...

Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary ...
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Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction

Topics: Dualism and personality in post-evolutionary fiction - The rise of modernism - The emergence of the "unconscious" underground - Victorian literary wanderer, world adventurer and man of letters - Victorian degeneration theory Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final ...
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Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia

Topics: H. G. Wells The Time Machine and the final utopia - Naturalistic and Evolutionary model of the human condition - Time Machine Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
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Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"

Topics: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's Erewhon - Utopian literary tradition - Technological utopianism - Utopias and the satirical tradition - Eugenical thought - Victorian England - Musical banks - Mid-Victorian religion - Satire Instructor: Prof. James ...

Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea ...
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Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy

Topics: Adam Smith Wealth of Nations (1776): The idea of an Oeconomy - The idea of an Oeconomy - The division of labor - Specialization - Autonomy - Intentionality - Self-Interest - Rise of towns Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
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Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

Topics: Malthus and the Compound Interest World - Worldometer - Human mind - Fixed laws of nature - Population growth - Instinct versus reason - Struggle for existence - Malthus's theory of growth - Variable rate compounding Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
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Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind

Topics: Malthus and the Compound Mind - Collective irrationality and the French Revolution - Darwin's voyage Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
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Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World

Topics: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World - Franz Gall - Luigi Galvani - Overproduction - Imperfect Adaptation - Charles Lyell - Geologic Time - Geology Principles - Faunal Succession - Fossils - Science in the 19th Century - Variation - Selection Instructor: ...

Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. ...
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Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based ...

Topics: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion - Natural vs. revealed religion - The three discussants - Demea, Cleanthes, Philo Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
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Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy

Topics: Philo and the Limits of Analogy - Self-organized matter - Unnecessary complexity - The vegetative universe - Parsimony in the natural world - The oeconomy of a world - Four circumstances of evil Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
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Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy

Topics: William Paley and his Legacy - Natural theology - Intelligent design - Argument - Naturalization of the body - Anatomy in the history of art and medicine - William Harvey - Gray's anatomy - Cuvierian comparative anatomy - Great chain of Being Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
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Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland

Topics: Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll's non-Newtonian World of Nonsense - A Mad Tea Party - Alice Liddell - Rules, Identity, Metamorphosis in Alice in Wonderland Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World ...
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Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views

Topics: Genesis, Aristotle, and the emergence of world views - Emergence of world views - Aristotelian concept of nature - The Four Aristotelian Causes Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

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