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This lecture provides an introduction to optogenetics, a biological technique to control the activity of neurons or other cell types with light.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 39:34
Speaker: : Adam Packer

This primer on optogenetics primer discusses how to manipulate neuronal populations with light at millisecond resolution and offers possible applications such as curing the blind and "playing the piano" with cortical neurons.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 59:06
Speaker: : Clay Reid

This presentation by the OHBM OpenScienceSIG covers common scenarios where Git can be extremely valuable. The essentials covered include cloning a repository and keeping it up to date, how to create and use your own repository, and how to contribute to other projects via forking and pull requests.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 51:55

DataLad is a versatile data management and data publication multi-tool. In this session, you can learn the basic concepts and commands for version control and reproducible data analysis. You’ll get to see, create, and install DataLad datasets of many shapes and sizes, master local version workflows and provenance-captured analysis-execution, and you will get ideas for your next data analysis project.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:29:08
Speaker: : Adina Wagner

This lecture provides an introduction to the course "Cognitive Science & Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior".

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:06:49

This lecture covers the emergence of cognitive science after the Second World War as an interdisciplinary field for studying the mind, with influences from anthropology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 51:07

This lecture covers different perspectives on the study of the mental, focusing on the difference between Mind and Brain. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:16:30

This lecture outlines various approaches to studying Mind, Brain, and Behavior. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:02:34

This lecture covers the history of behaviorism and the ultimate challenge to behaviorism. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:19:08

This lecture covers various learning theories.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:00:42

This lecture covers a lot of post-war developments in the science of the mind, focusing first on the cognitive revolution, and concluding with living machines.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:24:35