Neuroscience Demos

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Demos

I've compiled a list of what I think are some spectacular demonstrations of different concepts in science (with an emphasis on neuroscience). If you have any great demos to add, please let me know by email! This page is definitely still under construction.

Neuroscience Demonstrations

These are great websites with all sorts of neuroscience demonstrations. Many are appropriate for classes (of adults or kids).

Washington University's Neuroscience Teaching Team
The Exploratorium's snacks
Exploratorium: Hole in Your Hand
Exploratorium: Peripheral Vision
Neuroscience for kids by U of Washington
Long-Term Potentiation explanations
More neuroscience resources
Change Blindness
Wagon Wheel Illusion
McCollough Effect
A color illusion
Michael Bach's wonderful page of illusions

Some Favorite illusions:

Rotating Snake
Benham's Top
Motion Induced Blindness
Motion-Bounce Illusion
The Thatcher Illusion
bistable perception

Real-world examples of science in action

Well... sort of real world. These include art that incorporates science and info on products that illustrate some concept and...

Real products making use of neuroscience

Online videos of Parkinsons patients with and without deep brain stimulation. Amazing!
Ringtones only the young can hear
Nature Inspires Design of New Eyes

Looking at the world in a different way

Photos from ground-level. Of the whole world.
Looking at the world at different scales
Whitney music box. Visualizing music.
Science as Art.
Ok, these aren't exactly science, but I think they qualify:
A short clip about how silly it is to imagine that thought can only be done by biological materials
Fairy Doors
Complexity and Art

The exception that proves the rule

An incredible memory.
New Yorker on Hemispherectomy.

The beauty of the natural world

Lightning
Open access to lots of art, some of it anatomy

Applying science in daily life

My friend Alan Baldwin recorded this demonstration of freezing of supercooled water on a cold day in the car.
What seafood is ok to eat, based on marine ecology.

Other stuff

Stuff that doesn't really fit in the other categories
Tests for conceptual science learning
EEG for hobbyists
A movie showing effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
fMRI for Newbies

Brain Anatomy

3-D brain anatomy
Anatomy through Pinky and the Brain

Science outreach websites

Young Scientist Program at Wash U
Science for Everyone Everywhere

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