Subject Using 1500-Pixel Retinal Implant
After years of struggling with retinal implants that attempt to represent the visual world with just a few hundred dots of activity, researchers at the University of Tübingen have developed a chip with 1520 photodiodes, each with its own amplifier. The video here shows one of the subjects identifying common objects and reading large print. (Also see entry for Chapter 10 below.)

Optogenetics Revealed
This is a very nice video that explains how optogenetics works.

Inattentional Blindness
The ability to focus attention is highly adaptive, but it means that other aspects of the environment may be overlooked. This video demonstrates this phenomenon. And if you like that one, here's another. Play fair; do attempt the assigned task in the video.

Videos From the Text

Chapter 2

The Schwann Cell and Action Potential is a visually beautiful animation of myelination and how it speeds conduction.

The video The Origin of the Brain describes how (and why) neurons and synapses evolved and ends with a very nice demonstration of how simple circuits can "remember" and make "decisions."

Osaka University's Intelligent Robotics Laboratory site offers videos of several of its lifelike androids.

Chapter 3

BrainGate Lets Your Brain Control the Computer is a video explanation of the BrainGate system; it shows the patient controlling a computer and a prosthetic hand.