Dr. Kara Bopp

Check out this book that "presents seven case studies of people whose "abnormalities" of brain function offer new insights into conceptions of human personality and consciousness" (from amazon.com)

Sacks, O. (1995). An Anthropologist on Mars. NY: Vintage Books, Random House, Inc.

Link to additional Scientific American Frontiers (with Alan Alda) videos

Including a video about Phineas Gage: http://www.pbs.org/saf/1302/video/watchonline.htm

Developmental Psychology:

See pictures of a family that takes photographs on same day each year

http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

Videos of embryonic and fetal development:

http://health.discovery.com/beyond/?playerId=219475126&categoryId=219535198&lineupId=769305244

Sensation & Perception:

Michael Bach's website of optical illusions and visual phenomenon

http://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

Sleep:

60 Minutes - March 16, 2008 "Science of Sleep":

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/14/60minutes/main3939721.shtml

Attention:

Person change study videos by Simons and Levin:

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html

Language:

Check out these books by Steven Pinker

Pinker, S. (1999). How the Mind Works. NY: WW Norton & Co.

Pinker, S. (2000). The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. NY: Harper Perennial Modern

Classics.

Decision making:

Check out this book about relying on your first instinct:

Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Little, Brown, & Co.

Also see books on or by Thomas Kuhn for example of belief persistence/confirmation bias.

For example see: Kuhn, T. (1996). Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.

Social psychology:

Check out this interesting TED speech by Philip Zimbardo: Why ordinary people do evil or good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFEV35tWsg

Check out this book about groups

Surowiecki,, J. (2004). The Wisdom of Crowds. Anchor Books.

Link to interesting recent NY Times article:

            SCIENCE | November 13, 2007
                   From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
                    By CARL ZIMMER
                    Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to    make decisions and move like a single organism.