Do you love dinosaurs? I know I do! So I made a video about dinosaur brains! How smart were the dinosaurs? Maybe smarter than you think! At least one neuroscientist thinks T-Rex may have been as smart as a baboon - smart enough to have culture and maybe even... use tools! youtu.be/U62weE3bA0g - ThreadSky

langofmind.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Do you love dinosaurs? I know I do! So I made a video about dinosaur brains!
How smart were the dinosaurs? Maybe smarter than you think! At least one neuroscientist thinks T-Rex may have been as smart as a baboon - smart enough to have culture and maybe even... use tools!

https://youtu.be/U62weE3bA0g

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langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

You've probably heard about Broca's and Wernicke's Areas - brain areas responsible for language production and comprehension. This is the basic story in every textbook. The only problem is... it's wrong!

Research of the last 50 years has challenged this view - time to update!
https://youtu.be/iOkLKwAMyKQ

langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

My first entry in the Cog Sci Mind Challenge - Can machines think? With help from some former students, we explore the history and philosophy of artificial intelligence from the Turing Test to the Chinese Room.

We won second place for this one! 🥈
https://youtu.be/HNcVxMnMupk

langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

Ever have a vivid memory of something, and then find out it never existed? You're not alone! The Mandela Effect is a common experience where our memory of an object or event turns out to be false. Some think it's evidence of alternate timelines. What does cog sci say?

https://youtu.be/x61EL6y3gQM

langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

You're likely familiar with optical illusions, but did you know there are also auditory illusions? The McGurk Effect is a classic illusion where what we see fundamentally changes what we hear!
And this strange experience can tell us a lot about how we perceive the world! 👁️👂
https://youtu.be/eKuFaIHrH00

langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

My very first video!
The evolution of language is a huge mess of unanswered questions, but one linguist thinks he's found an interesting connection between some universals of human language and animal cognition. Can this tell us something about where language came from?

https://youtu.be/CxzndPCOSV8

langofmind.bsky.social•59 days ago

I hope you guys enjoy these! I have many more in the pipeline. Right now I'm working on two videos - one about Kiki-Bouba (if you haven't heard of this, google it! There are so many great memes), and another about the secret science of brand names (did you know there are linguists who work on this?)

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