Thinking & Awareness

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Understanding the Power of Meditation
Neuroscientists are exploring the source of the brain benefits behind habitual meditative practices.
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How We Weigh Our Options
Scientists are studying how we evaluate selections and use past experience to make decisions.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Circadian Rhythms Keep the Body Ticking on Time
The discovery of cellular clocks throughout the body is shedding light on sleep disorders and changing how — and when — we treat disease.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Explaining the Brain’s Inner Map-Maker
Two Nobel-winning scientists explain how your brain gets you from Point A to Point B.
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  • 6 min
Pinocchio's Arm: A Lie Detector Test
Can we tell the difference between a lying brain and a truth-telling brain?
  • Science Buddies
The Brain Prize Presents: Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan, Peter Dayan, Wolfram Schultz have demonstrated how the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine helps us learn.
  • The Brain Prize
  • 5 min
The Brain: Our Sense of Self
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS) asks the question "how is our sense of identity contained in the brain?"
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
What Are Hallucinations?
Hallucinations happen when people see, hear, feel, or otherwise sense things that are not real, but appear to be very real and part of the surrounding environment.
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Ride the (Brain) Wave
Brain cells work in concert: they fire together and go quiet together, giving rise to rhythmic electrical activity called brain waves.
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  • 4 min
Blind Minds Eyes: Aphantasia and Our Diverse Inner Lives
Learn about aphantasia and your "mind's eye" in this video.
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  • 4 min
Nutty Numbers
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 5 min
The Neuroscience of Ghosts
The video is a fun explanation of the neurological basis of the phantom limb syndrome.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 3 min
Teens and Decision Making
In this lesson Scholastics passes along the knowledge that understanding how your brain works can help explain why you behave like you do.
  • Scholastic

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