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Megan deBettencourt - Applied Mathematics
Megan deBettencourt - Applied Mathematics
Megan deBettencourt has been involved with faculty research at Columbia since her second year at SEAS. She currently works on neuroscience research projects with Biomedical Engineering Professor Paul Sajda in his Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing (LIINC).
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The Neuroscience of Emotions
The Neuroscience of Emotions
Google Tech Talks September 16, 2008 ABSTRACT The ability to recognize and work with different emotions is fundamental to psychological flexibility and well-being. Neuroscience has contributed to the understanding of the neural bases of emotion, emotion regulation, and emotional intelligence, and has begun to elucidate the brain mechanisms involved in emotion processing. Of great interest is the degree to which these mechanisms demonstrate neuroplasticity in both anatomical and functional levels of the brain. Speaker: Dr. Phillippe Goldin
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The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain. Read more about the topic, including how to use social and emotional learning to stop bullying, on our Edutopia website: www.edutopia.org
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Hippocampal Neuron in 3D rotation
Hippocampal Neuron in 3D rotation
A movie of a cultured rat hippocampal neuron reconstructed in 3D using pseudoconfocal microscopy (deconvolution by Slidebook [Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Inc., Denver, CO]). Color Key: Green = cytoskeleton; red = synapses; blue = nucleus.
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Hippocampal Neuron in 3D rotation_2
Hippocampal Neuron in 3D rotation_2
A movie of a cultured rat hippocampal neuron reconstructed in 3D using pseudoconfocal microscopy (deconvolution by Slidebook [Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Inc., Denver, CO]). Color Key: Green = cytoskeleton; red = synapses; blue = nucleus.
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Authors@Google: Daniel Goleman
Authors@Google: Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman discusses his book "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships" as a part of the Authors@Google series. For more from Daniel Goleman, visit www.morethansound.net. This event took place on August 3, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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Edutopia Webinar - How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick
Edutopia Webinar - How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick
Neuroscience is a complex field that educators don't often turn to for inspiration, but knowing a few basic concepts can help you plan teaching strategies that will prompt your students to be more receptive to learning. You can read more about this topic and view more webinars on our website: www.edutopia.org Host: Grace Rubenstein, senior producer, Edutopia Date: April 9, 2009 Presenter: Judy Willis, middle school teacher and neurologist and authority on learning-centered brain research and classroom strategies derived from this research
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The Brain's Inner Workings - Cognition - Part 2 / Documentary
The Brain's Inner Workings - Cognition - Part 2 / Documentary
The Brain's Inner Workings - Part 2 - Cognition. This video looks at the neurological basis of higher brain function. Learn how different human behaviors and functions can be isolated to specific areas of the brain, and how with the help of imaging techniques like MRI we can visualize brain activity in a way that gives insight into how the brain functions and allows scientists to develop treatment methods for various mental illnesses in the future. Producer: National Institutes of Health. Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal.
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How People Think: "The Brain's Inner Workings: Cognition" NIMH narrated by Tom Bosley 7min
How People Think: "The Brain's Inner Workings: Cognition" NIMH narrated by Tom Bosley 7min
more at scitech.quickfound.net "...from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - this video narrated by Tom Bosley looks at the neurological basis of higher brain function. Learn how different human behaviors and functions can be isolated to specific areas of the brain, and how with the help of imaging techniques like MRI we can visualize brain activity in a way that gives insight into how the brain functions and allows scientists to develop..." Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. en.wikipedia.org In science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics,science and computer science. Usage of the term varies in different disciplines; for example in psychology and cognitive science, it usually refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions. It is also used in a branch of social psychology called social cognition to explain attitudes, attribution and groups dynamics. The term cognition (Latin: cognoscere, "to know", "to conceptualize" or "to recognize") refers to a faculty for the processing of information, applying knowledge, and changing preferences. Cognition, or cognitive processes, can be natural or <b>...</b>
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Overview of the Beckman Institute
Overview of the Beckman Institute
This 8 minute video produced by the the Beckman's Imaging Technology Group and WILL provides an overview of the Beckman Institute and its interdisciplinary research.
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NATIONAL ANALYSTS WORLDWIDE - Neuromarketing Research: A Choppy Ride on the Brain Waves.mov
NATIONAL ANALYSTS WORLDWIDE - Neuromarketing Research: A Choppy Ride on the Brain Waves.mov
Michael Polster, PhD, a Senior Vice President at NATIONAL ANALYSTS WORLDWIDE, discusses Neuromarketing as a market research tool. NATIONAL ANALYSTS WORLDWIDE is a market research consultancy established in 1911, with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. Learn more at www.nationalanalysts.com -and- visit our blog at blog.nationalanalysts.com
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The Neural Circuitry of Perception & Genetic and Hormonal Influences on Cognition
The Neural Circuitry of Perception & Genetic and Hormonal Influences on Cognition
A Google Tech Talk May 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Michael Goard, PhD, and Emily Jacobs, PhD. The majority of the human brain is comprised of a single structure, the neocortex, responsible for a range of cognitive functions, from sensory perception to abstract thought. However, despite this diversity of functions, the neocortex has a simple architecture it is comprised of numerous repeated motifs of a single stereotyped neural circuit. This talk will serve as an introduction to the structure and function of the neocortical circuit, particularly focusing on how it processes sensory input in order to generate cohesive perception of the external world. This will be followed by a description of recent experiments demonstrating how the neocortex can process sensory input in different ways depending on the behavioral state of the animal. Finally, there will be a discussion of how understanding neocortical function will lead to innovations in medicine, computing, and artificial intelligence. The study of neuroscience is devoted to understanding how the brain functions uniformly across members of a species, but a critical question centers on how cognitive processes differ between members of a species, or in an individual under varying environmental conditions. In short, why do some people excel where others falter? This talk introduces two factors that contribute to individual differences in cognition: genes and hormones. This concept is examined through recent experiments <b>...</b>
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CCARE Research and Experiments on Compassion I
CCARE Research and Experiments on Compassion I
October 15, 2010 - This session presents important findings from CCARE's research on the "neural, genetic and behavioral mechanisms associated with compassion, altruism and other pro-social emotions." The panel explores the evolutionary origins of mammalian nurturing as well as neuropsychological and neuroeconomic models of compassion. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Dalai Lama at Stanford: dalailama.stanford.edu Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford (CCARE): ccare.stanford.edu Dalai Lama Home: www.dalailama.com Charter for Compassion: charterforcompassion.org Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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Whole Brain Emulation: The Logical Endpoint of Neuroinformatics?
Whole Brain Emulation: The Logical Endpoint of Neuroinformatics?
Google Tech Talk May 27, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Anders Sandberg. The idea of creating a faithful, one-to-one computer copy of a human brain has been a popular philosophical thought experiment and science fiction plot for decades. While computational neuroscience and systems biology are currently very far away from this goal, the trends towards large-scale simulation, industrialized neuroinformatics, new forms of microscopy and powerful computing clusters point in this direction and are enabling new forms of simulations of unprecendented scope. In this talk I will discuss current estimates of how close we are to achieving emulated brains, technological requirements, research challenges and some of the possible consequences.
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Learning to See Late in Life
Learning to See Late in Life
Learning to See Late in Life Air date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Views: Total views: 152, (89 Live, 63 On-demand)Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Description: The hope inherent in pursuing basic research is that sometime in the future the work will prove beneficial to society. This fruition can often take many years. However, in some instances, even the conduct of basic research can yield tangible societal benefits. Dr. Sinha will describe an effort that perhaps fits in this category. Named 'Project Prakash', this initiative provides sight to blind children on the one hand and helps address questions regarding brain plasticity and learning on the other. Through a combination of behavioral and brain-imaging studies, the effort has provided evidence of visual learning late in childhood and has illuminated some of the processes that might underlie such learning. The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. For more information, visit: The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series Author: Pawan Sinha, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Runtime: 01:09:44 Permanent link: videocast.nih.gov
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Authors@Google: Steve Paulson
Authors@Google: Steve Paulson
Is the universe ''designed'' for life? Will science ever unlock the mysteries of the human mind or explain the origins of religion? In "Atoms and Eden", award-winning journalist Steve Paulson explores these questions in an unprecedented collection of interviews with the major figures in the science and religion debate, including Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, EO Wilson, Francis Collins, Jane Goodall, and Steven Weinberg. Steve Paulson is the executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program "To the Best of Our Knowledge." He is a recipient of the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and Religion. He has written for Salon, Slate and other publications, and has produced feature stories for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
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EEG Studies of Social Perception, Dr. James McPartland
EEG Studies of Social Perception, Dr. James McPartland
In this lecture, Dr. James McPartland reviews face perception in social development and its relevance to understanding social perception in autism. Based on research findings from the field of brain electrophysiology, differences in salience and proficiency in processing social versus non-social information are discussed.
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Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Google Tech Talk March 19, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto. Deep networks can be learned efficiently from unlabeled data. The layers of representation are learned one at a time using a simple learning module that has only one layer of latent variables. The values of the latent variables of one module form the data for training the next module. Although deep networks have been quite successful for tasks such as object recognition, information retrieval, and modeling motion capture data, the simple learning modules do not have multiplicative interactions which are very useful for some types of data. The talk will show how to introduce multiplicative interactions into the basic learning module in a way that preserves the simple rules for learning and perceptual inference. The new module has a structure that is very similar to the simple cell/complex cell hierarchy that is found in visual cortex. The multiplicative interactions are useful for modeling images, image transformations, and different styles of human walking. Speaker bio: www.cs.toronto.edu