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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2 mo on HNThis Is Your Brain On Stale Air
2 mo on HNDr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
2 mo on HNWhy hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
2 mo on HNTry this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC
2 mo on HNUpdate on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
2 mo on HNHow Children Develop Perfect Pitch
2 mo on HNYour Brain at Work
2 mo on HNIs Your Red The Same as My Red?
2 mo on HNaltitude chamber hypoxia training guy passes out
2 mo on HNThe Man With The Seven Second Memory
2 mo on HNYour Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #965 - Robert Sapolsky
1 mo on HNUnderstanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke
1 mo on HNQ&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue
1 mo on HNYou aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett
1 mo on HNMcGurk effect - Auditory Illusion - BBC Horizon Clip
1 mo on HN14. Limbic System
1 mo on HNWHY Exercise is so Underrated (Brain Power & Movement Link)
1 mo on HNHow playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
1 mo on HN21. Chaos and Reductionism
1 mo on HNPeople who remember every second of their life | 60 Minutes Australia
1 mo on HNOptical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto
1 mo on HNYou Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
1 mo on HNThe Weird World in RGB
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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?