This video provides a quick overview of statistical learning – an ability of infants to extract patterns and regularities in their environmental input to acquire language.
Statistical Learning in Infants
Category: 2023
Symphony of Sounds
This video will introduce you to some basic explanations of how our brain perceives music notes and keys when we are listening to music.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Have you ever gotten an uncomfortable feeling when you’re doing something you know you don’t agree with, even though it might make sense to do it in that situation? For example, you just took a hard exam, but tell your friend it’s not that hard so that they aren’t nervous… but now you feel bad for lying. That’s called cognitive dissonance! Let’s learn some more about it.
Inside the Mind of the Split Brain
This video walks through the internal processes of a split-brain and simplifies the style of experiments run by researchers to examine consciousness and processing in these patients.
Babies Can Do Statistics?
Breakdown of a possible method that babies use for word segmentation in their language acquisition journey.
Milgram and The Minions
Children’s video that provides an overview of the renowned 1963 Milgram experiment by providing a fictional and entertaining story.
3 Minute Introduction to the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
This brief educational video introduces the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon, recommended for anyone interested in language, linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science! No background knowledge is needed.
The Representativeness Heuristic
This video will explain the representativeness heuristic, as defined by Tversky and Kahneman.
The Misinformation Effect
I will be presenting a recorded crash course on the misinformation effect and its relationship with post-event information based on Loftus & Palmer (1974). This video is intended to bolster enthusiasm for university students who intend on majoring in BCS (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) by giving them a sample of interesting topics.
Examining the Split Brain
This video discusses the study, “Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness” by Sperry et al. This study conducted experiments on split-brain patients and examined their ability to integrate information between their two hemispheres.