Explain the Brain: Recent Episodes
Explain the Brain
From The Mind Science Foundation (mindscience.org), a little show that asks big questions about our minds, with help from the boldest scientists in neuroscience and psychology. Produced and hosted by public radio reporter Audrey Quinn.
This neuroscientist thinks Western science is missing the mark by studying the markers of consciousness, instead of the thing itself.
Justin Hulbert's found that by suppressing bad memories we may compromise our ability to form new memories.
Heather Berlin's a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and she has a new theory for the causes behind OCD.
Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.
Modern psychology is just now coming to grips with our subconscious thoughts -- and finding there's not a lot we can do to control them.
Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.
The way we’ve studied anxiety has been more helpful to rats in mazes than humans in stressful situations.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.
What's really important when it comes to raising good readers? This Harvard psychologist has found parents matter even more than you might think.
When you see someone with a frightened face, it's hard to look away. Charles Nelson looks at when, and why, we get this attraction to fear.
This Harvard psychologist's work has shown that most of us are racist, sexist, age-ist, class-ist, able-ist, and so on. Basically we're pre-destined to stereotype others. But, she says, that doesn't mean we can't retrain our brains to move past prejudices.
A longer version of this interview appeared in Episode 7 of The Organist podcast: https://soundcloud.com/the-organist/mahzarin-banaji-ep-7-the
This New York University psychologist sends infants over cliffs in order to watch them learn locomotion. You will never look at a crawling baby the same way again after hearing this story.
This Vassar College psychologist blames adolescent blunders on a surprising cause: over-thinking. She says teenagers have to concentrate to do simple tasks that adults can get through on auto-pilot.