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A Dramatic Demonstration of the Power of Mental Frames
A dramatic and shocking demonstration of how your brain gets fooled to see something that is not there because of your biases, prejudices and expectations.
A Turing Machine - Overview
My goal in building this project was to create a machine that embodied the classic look and feel of the machine presented in Alan Turings 1937 paper on compu...
Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University)
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University) is building a "wiring diagram" for the brain. By bridging the gap between individual synapses and whole-brain learning & memory, Raymond's research offers new...
Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell, Stanford University)
Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working ...
Brain-Computer Interfaces (Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University)
Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. In this short talk, Shenoy describes how his team of Stan...
