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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5 mo on HNWhy You Should Put YOUR MASK On First (My Brain Without Oxygen) - Smarter Every Day 157
3 mo on HNThe effects of DBS on the motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
3 mo on HNThe Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
3 mo on HNGrowing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? | Part 1
3 mo on HNselective attention test
3 mo on HNGrowing Human Neurons on a Home Made Electrode Array
2 mo on HNBobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
2 mo on HNTry this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC
2 mo on HNaltitude chamber hypoxia training guy passes out
1 mo on HNMcGurk effect - Auditory Illusion - BBC Horizon Clip
1 mo on HNMovie reconstruction from human brain activity
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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?