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visual neuroscience

  gero_miesenboeck    
  how the brains learn to see (blindness & poverty)   Pawan Sinha, neuroscientist, MIT    
  Optical Illusions & how we see   Beau Lotto  
  brain damage & consciousness capgras Ramachandran    
 
 
  Brain bases of Mind reading   Rebecca Saxe, MIT    
 

chronic pain in children

  Eliot Krane, Anesthesiologist, Stanford Children Hospital    
Psychology of Language Why babies talk   Alison Gopnik    
the birth of a word   Deb Roy, cognitive scientist, MIT    
how babies learn to talk?   Patricia Kuhl, U. Washington    
on language and thought   Steve Pinker, psycholinguist, MIT    
           
  The Origins of pleasure   Paul Bloom, Yale U.    
 Judgment and Decision Making Being happy in your life vs. being happy about your life   Dan Kahneman,  Princeton U.  
on mistaken expectations expected utility Dan Gilbert, Harvard U.  why are we happy?  
 
 
 
the paradox of choice   Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College on wisdom (part 1, part 2)  
are we in control of our decisions?   Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, Duke U.  Predictably irrational (in youtube or in DanAriely.com
why is it OK to cheat (sometimes)?        
           
  positive psychology   martin seligman, Penn    
           
Morality Moral Foundations   Jonathan Haidt