Sorry I missed you! We were pretty slammed. Hopefully we can hang out sometime. D&D??

Absolute classic!

"you remind me of that fat slob comedian with the annoying laugh"
"you remind me of an oscar-winning dramatic actor"
"wow, yikes"

ACK ACK!

I find blind sight really fascinating, but @bayesandbounds.bsky.social has been trying to convince me it's not real! It's definitely worth looking into.

Thanks Jamie!

And if you're curious where my profile picture came from, I'll leave you with this!
youtu.be/mN9XXU70V_Y

If there's anything you think would make an interesting cog sci video, let me know! I'm always looking for new topics, and I don't intend to stop making these!

Oh, and happy new year! 🎉

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?)

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?

youtu.be/CxzndPCOSV8

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! 👁️👂
youtu.be/eKuFaIHrH00

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?

youtu.be/x61EL6y3gQM

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! 🥈
youtu.be/HNcVxMnMupk

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!
youtu.be/iOkLKwAMyKQ

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

On the topic of Nicaraguan Sign Language, did you know that this new language can help us solve a linguistic mystery? 40% of the world's languages have the same word order - the same order that mysteriously appeared in Nicaraguan Sign Language!

How could this be? Watch 👇
youtu.be/5X5QPj8_boo

Another entry in the Cog Sci Mind Challenge - why are there so many languages? Unfortunately, we didn't place.
But I'm still super proud of this video that charts the course of language change in England, the Pacific, all the way to a brand new sign language in Nicaragua!

youtu.be/bL77-yX91CI

Not gonna lie, this is a weird one. The story of Tourette Syndrome is a strange one that winds its way from 19th century pseudo-science to modern neurolinguistics and all the way back to the stone age.
And the life of Gilles de la Tourette is just as strange!

youtu.be/WyqmmKNrKeg