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Neuroscience & the brain Videos Recommended on Hacker News (83)

Neuroscience & the brain is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 83 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 274 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Neuroscience: brain function, neurons, memory, perception, sleep, Sapolsky, Huberman, split brain, brain-computer interfaces, biocomputing, human echolocation, cognitive neuroscience.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology: “Best course I've ever done.” — an HN commenter, 2017.

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7 mo on HN

You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger

CGP Grey
Recommended 7× on HN · 2016–2025
3 mo on HN

Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch

Rick Beato
Recommended 4× on HN · 2017–2025
4 mo on HN

Why you DON'T want Perfect Pitch

Adam Neely
Recommended 6× on HN · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain

Royal Society of Arts
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

Veritasium
Recommended 4× on HN · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

This Is Your Brain On Stale Air

Tom Scott
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Vsauce
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2024
1 mo on HN

WHY Exercise is so Underrated (Brain Power & Movement Link)

Joseph Everett - WIL
Recommended 1× on HN · 2017–2018
1 mo on HN

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

TED-Ed
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.

Harvard Business Review
Recommended 2× on HN · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

The Weird World in RGB

Technology Connections
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2021

Also discussed on Hacker News (9)

Mentioned in HN threads about neuroscience & the brain, though never formally recommended:

Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development · Next Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old) · How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google · Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco · Decerebrate Cat walks and exhibits multiple gait patterns · The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price · Watch How This Blind Man Uses Echo Location To Ride a Bike · Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike · Did People Used To Look Older?