Explore our sense of taste, including the different tastes and the molecular basis underlying our perception of taste.
The basic purpose of the Nervous System is to coordinate all of the activities of the body. It enables the Body to respond and adapt to changes that occur both inside and outside the body.
Daniel Kish is famous for his abilities to see using sound, despite being totally blind. The notion of multimodal perception has long been promoted by Gibsonian scientists and is understood via the field known as ecological psychology and direct perception theory.
A hand-painted watercolor journey through the visual system. You will follow light as it travels from the eye to the cortex in this 5-minute video.
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In this lesson, you will be introduced to the 12 cranial nerves! These are the nerves that originate from various parts of the brain and primarily impact parts of our head and neck, with some notable exceptions.
Paul Andersen explains how we perceive our environment using our sensory system. He starts with a brief discussion of action potentials and the nervous system. He shows that we many more than five senses. He goes into more detail to show how humans smell, see and hear.
For decades, scientists thought that the adult human brain was static and unchanging. But in the last few decades, we have learned that the adult brain is more dynamic than we ever imagined! This short film was created for the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
