Chapter 2: Introducing the brain

Do you need to get up to speed on your neuroscience basics?  Have a look at these free study materials: 
Neuroscience crash course (youtube tutorials).
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOA0aRJ90NxuIgOC9YGRUT4Y-CsP12bsS

Free online Fundamentals of Neuroscience module from Harvard University.
www.mcb80x.org/

Check out the 3D Brain App from Google Play, or Neuroanatomy online:
www.nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy/

The Interactive Neuroanatomy website has good quality images of brain regions and systems that you can learn to label:
www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/neuroanatomy/neuroanat/

The structure and function of neurons shown in a simple video clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUGuWh2UeMk

MRI brain atlas allows you to navigate through slices of normal and damaged brains:
www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

Chapter 3: The electrophysiological brain

A demonstration of EEG event-related potentials (ERPs) to visual stimuli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXXxL0EOJqs

Professor Steve Luck has made available slides, videos, and other educational material relating to ERP analysis (for researchers who will gain hands-on experience):
www.erpinfo.org/educational-materials www.youtube.com/user/erplabtoolbox

Introduction to magnetoencephalography (MEG) recorded at MIT:
www.video.mit.edu/watch/introduction-to-magnetoencephalography-7158/

An interview with Professor Horace Barlow who conducted seminal work on how neurons code visual information and who introduced the concept of grandmother cells:
www.thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-science-studio/a-conversation-with-horace-barlow

Learn more about the discovery of the Jennifer Aniston Neuron and its implications:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=635Ntur8K2s

Information for early career researchers working with EEG event-related potentials:
www.erpinfo.org
www.youtube.com/user/erplabtoolbox

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Electrophysiological Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=giv5JRwd3eA

Chapter 4: The imaged brain

Lecture given by Professor Geoffrey Aguirre on the physics and biology of fMRI. There are three other lectures as part of this series covering various other issues about study design and analysis, in depth, concerning fMRI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGLd-bUwVXg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1XYcIj86TI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qo44isGcxw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8jwPMTick

Thomas Insel is the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and, in this TED talk, discusses how methods such as neuroimaging shed new light on how we think about “mental” illnesses:
www.ted.com/talks/thomas_insel_toward_a_new_understanding_of_mental_illness

TEDx talk by Professor David van Essen on “The Human Connectome Project - Relating Brain Circuits to Behavior”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2W570VgV6I

Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecvv-EvOj8M

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Imaged Brain and Lesioned Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0tke_LyAps

Chapter 5: The lesioned brain and stimulated brain

Professor Elizabeth Warrington on the history of neuropsychology:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A78BA76FF5699E8

International Neuropsychological Society:
www.the-ins.org/
Interviews and Lectures at the British Neuropsychological Society:
http://www.the-bns.org/videos.html

Jobs, news, and conferences linked to non-invasive brain stimulation:
www.neuromodec.com/
Tweets by ‎@neuromodec

A demonstration of transcranial magnetic stimulation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtNPqCj-iA

A series of lectures at UCDavis on brain stimulation, particularly the newer method of tDCS, including the following two:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fz7r8VDV4o
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUMUIXNeBRQ

Legal and ethical frameworks for animal research:
The UK has adopted the 3Rs principle (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement).
www.nc3rs.org.uk/the-3rs
The US National Institute of Health (NIH) Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.
www.grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/tutorial/intro.htm
Animal research law in the EU.
www.eara.eu/en/animal-research/eu-animal-research-law-directive-2010-63/

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Imaged Brain and Lesioned Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0tke_LyAps

Chapter 6: The developing brain

Charles Nelson discusses the use of EEG in developmental cognitive neuroscience:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hfCV0IwJsg

Rakic laboratory animated video of a migrating cortical neuron and animated video of radial migration:
www.medicine.yale.edu/lab/rakic/research/

UK Biobank Imaging Study:
www.imaging.ukbiobank.ac.uk/

Elizabeth Spelke interviewed on innate knowledge:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOllgd-8Ao

David Hubel on Critical Periods and Cortical Development:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kozf-G5G6TM

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Developing Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckRu6hNSRg

Chapter 7: The seeing brain

Hubel and Wiesel discuss their classic experiments on the neurons of the visual cortex:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHayh06LJ4

Learn more about visual illusions and how they are created by the brain:
www.illusionoftheyear.com/

Do you think you have developmental (or congenital) prosopagnosia?
www.troublewithfaces.org/
Or perhaps you never forget a face and could be a super-recognizer?
http://superrecognisers.com/

The original photo of ‘the dress’:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File:The_Dress_(viral_phenomenon).png

Test your susceptibility to visual illusions and face processing ability from our dedicated demo test library:
www.testable.org/ward

“Living with visual agnosia”—a video about one patient’s experiences:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKqi93FMgQ

The BBC Documentary Brain Story – The Mind’s Eye has interviews and demonstrations relating to this chapter:
www.archive.org/details/BBC.Brain.Story.3of6.The.Minds.Eye.XviD.AC3.HDTVM4ripos4

This website has many fun visual illusions and has the added benefit of including a scientific explanation of them:
www.michaelbach.de/ot/

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Seeing Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRbskQwbWSs

Chapter 8: The hearing brain

Discover what auditory illusions reveal about the neurocognitive mechanisms of hearing:
www.newscientist.com/article/dn13355-sound-effects-five-great-auditory-illusions/
www.hear.com/useful-knowledge/auditory-illusions/

Professor Daniel Levitin presents a TEDx lecture in which he describes his own view on how the evolution of the human brain made music possible:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAl2I30SoTA

The cocktail party problem discussed in light of new evidence from the effects of attention on auditory neurons:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQhMFxvaPM

Oliver Sachs, the famous neurologist and science writer, discusses amusia (based on his book Musicophilia):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jy6GdXHUE0
www.youtube.com/user/knopfgroup/videos

Make your own spectrograms using the free software Audacity (www.audicityteam.org).  Here’s a simple guide:
www.pretzellogic.net/2012/03/12/make-a-spectrogram/

Check out the McGurk effect online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Hearing Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzfMwFOSMXE

Chapter 9: The attending brain

Professor Geoff Boynton being interviewed on the neural basis of attention:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/geoff-boynton-fmri-studies-attention

Professor Marlene Behrmann being interviewed on disorders of attention and perception:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/marlene-behrmann-attention-and-perception-disorders

A demonstration of change blindness:
www.gocognitive.net/demo/change-blindness

Test your auditory selective attention:
www.gocognitive.net/demo/selective-attention-auditory-demonstration

Two first-hand accounts of hemispatial neglect:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4FhZs-m7hA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKvS0XsM4w&t=21s

Watch the rubber hand illusion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG22iFL-VgE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQbygjG0RU

Lectures by Sabine Kastner:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=26n7I2biijQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaOradATEdI

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Spatial Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oev0jrP3yOo

Chapter 10: The acting brain

Discover more about brain-machine interfaces in paralyzed patients:
www.ted.com/talks/miguel_nicolelis_brain_to_brain_communication_has_arrived_how_we_did_it
www.ted.com/talks/miguel_nicolelis_a_monkey_that_controls_a_robot_with_its_thoughts_no_really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt8QCx3BCo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lmJe_EXEU

Discover more about the debate on “free will” and the neurosciences.
The Libet study demonstrated:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPwULN7cYo
The philosopher Daniel Dennett on the illusion of free will:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGPIzSe5cAU
Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI
Neurophilosophy and free will - Patricia Churchland:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9K5cwt8Dw

Discover more about mirror neurons and the controversy that surrounds their functions.
Giacomo Rizzolatti - Mirror neurons: from monkey to human:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/giacomo-rizzolatti-mirror-neurons
Debate: "Do Mirror Neurons Explain Anything?" (Vittorio Gallese and Gregory Hickok):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU5oT8SsAXw

Niels Birbaumer interviewed on brain–computer interfaces as compensation for motor disorders:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/niels-birbaumer-brain-computer-interfaces

Discover more about deep brain stimulation for neurodegeneration:
www.ted.com/talks/andres_lozano_parkinson_s_depression_and_the_switch_that_might_turn_them_off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaThzeghWnM

Ann Graybiel discussing the role of the basal ganglia on motor function and cognition:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qi0B_jAMmw&list=PL36SexhUSOpAUn6s_mGGvmbp8Ic0WU1r4&index=7

Chapter 11: The remembering brain

An interview with Alan Baddeley on working memory:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/alan-baddeley-working-memory

Test your own working memory capacity:
testable.org/ward

Documentary clip “Living without memory” featuring Clive Wearing, one of the most densely amnesic patients on record:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9UY8Zqg-Q

A test demonstrating implicit memory that you can do yourself:
www.gocognitive.net/demo/implict-memory-test-dot-clearing

Professor Larry Squire being interviewed about the neural basis of long-term memory:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/larry-squire-neuroscience-declarative-long-term-memory

Discover more about the remarkable case of Patient HM:
www.nature.com/news/postmortem-of-famous-brain-explains-why-its-owner-couldn-t-learn-1.14607
Luke Dittrich (2016) book “Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets” is available in kindle and paperback.
Interview with Brenda Milner on HM:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JliczINA__Y

Discover more about memory, space, and the hippocampus.
TEDx talk by Neil Burgess:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd71719_G8Y
Nobel Prize winner, John O’Keefe on “The GPS of the Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNIQSAPJjjs

Are you susceptible to false memories?
www.testable.org/ward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sk504Yc94
Talk by Elizabeth Loftus:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2OegI6wvI&t=2s

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Remembering Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OVxWDmUuCk

Chapter 12: The speaking brain

This is your brain on communication, TED talk by Uri Hasson (www.hassonlab.com/):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhlOovaGrI

Check out current controversies on the nature of semantic memory:
Karalyn Patterson (www.youtube.com/watch?v=36itc_iY06M), Lawrence Barsalou (www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0K4xpHs24&t=9s); Alfonso Caramazza (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NahotsIPkRA)

Different types of aphasia:
www.aphasia.org/stories/different-types-aphasia/

An interview with Professor Angela Friederici on language in the brain:
www.gocognitive.net/interviews/angela-friederici-language-and-brain

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Speaking Brain”:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEo4-B2w-ag

Chapter 13: The literate brain

Test yourself on the word superiority effect and lexical decision:
www.testable.org/ward

How the brain learns to read:
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=25GI3-kiLdo

Learn more about developmental dyslexia:
Understood.org
www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/understanding-dyslexia
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=ZRZsM54D16c
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=QrF6m1mRsCQ

A presentation by Stanislas Dehaene on how the brain learns to read:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GI3-kiLdo

An example of acquired dyslexia (termed pure alexia) following stroke:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZnpd4NQ98

Dorothy Bishop speaks on “can studying the brain help us understand dyslexia?”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4-mrcStnE

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Literate Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgQHWgX5q4

Chapter 14: The numerate brain

Prof. Stanislas Dehaene - A Close Look at the Mathematician's Brain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMAsQeLfr3o

Prof. Andreas Nieder - The Neural Coding of Number and Other Dimensions:
www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-stanislas-dehaene/symposium-2013-02-26-15h10.htm

Test yourself at the distance and size effects with arrays and symbols:
www.testable.org/ward
www.panamath.org/

Test yourself on the SNARC effect:
www.testable.org/ward

An interview with Professor Brian Butterworth on dyscalculia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Hqdqe84Uc

Baby’s Innate Number Sense Predicts Future Math Skill:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uh8FkR_4OU

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Numerate Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUcciQAUs3E

Chapter 15: The executive brain

Test yourself on the Stroop Test, Task Switching, Go-NoGo Test and a version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting test:
www.testable.og/ward

The neuroeconomics of simple choice: Antonio Rangel at TEDxCaltech:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6CQjaP98Ew

Documentary clip discussing Phineas Gage, the prefrontal cortex, and interviews with Antonio Damasio:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1sj4JEJ2o

Interview with Professor Tim Shallice discussing his research into executive functions and other aspects of neuropsychology:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZxAQkwtOM

Demonstrates some classic tests of frontal lobe function (e.g. Wisconsin card sort) and contains some interviews with experts (such as Patricia Goldman-Rakic):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIX5YTPtKCs

A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Executive Brain”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOrEw4kwSE

Chapter 16: The social and emotional brain

Morten Kringelbach: The joyful mind: the neuroscience of pleasure and happiness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=riZqpQcp5iw

Paul Ekman: Do We All Have the Same Basic Emotions?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19PzyqOxxo

Paul Ekman: What is an emotion?
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZDLOAg_Po

Antonio Damasio: How Our Brains Feel Emotion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSv1KzdiWU

Jaak Panksepp: Science of emotion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65e2qScV_K8

Lisa Feldman Barrett: TED talk on the construction of emotions
www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at_the_mercy_of_your_emotions_your_brain_creates_them

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds
www.ted.com/speakers/rebecca_saxe.html

Marco Iacoboni: Talks at Google
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESM7b-X8zhQ

The ‘False Belief’ Test: Theory of Mind
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLubgpY2_w

Uta Frith: Autism: The First Fifty Years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_nEoe33bp8

Tania Singer: The Neuroscience of Compassion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hKS4rucTY

Lecture by Uta Frith on autism and theory-of-mind:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSk-KMTqFxY&list=PLB23E2FAF3A8AE344

Lecture by Joseph Le Doux on the emotional brain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhCPhhzBqQ

Rebecca Saxe discusses how morality can be studied with neuroscience:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4n2ftSvKxE

A series of talks on social neuroscience given by David Eagleman. Many of the topics focus on how we can understand violence, obedience, and group pressure.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf6Ydh3ke3A_q7jqQMznAHCJ8l4_nYMLe