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.
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Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience
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This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3
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Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4
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How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2
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How to stop a psychopath.Hint: You've got to start early.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1
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A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 22 Zoran Josipovic and Meditation
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This neuroscientist thinks Western science is missing the mark by studying the markers of consciousness, instead of the thing itself.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 21 Justin Hulbert and Memory Suppression
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Justin Hulbert's found that by suppressing bad memories we may compromise our ability to form new memories.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 20 Heather Berlin and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Heather Berlin's a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and she has a new theory for the causes behind OCD.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep.19 Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Neuromagic
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Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 18 David Eagleman And Sensory Substitution (rebroadcast)
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Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 17 David Eagleman And Synesthesia (rebroadcast)
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What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 16 David Eagleman And Neurolaw (rebroadcast)
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Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 15 David Eagleman And Our Perception of Time (rebroadcast)
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That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 14 Maria Konnikova And Mindfulness
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The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 13 Anthony Greenwald And The Implicit Revolution
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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.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 12 Diana Reiss And Dolphin Consciousness
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Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.Af Explain the Brain
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The way we’ve studied anxiety has been more helpful to rats in mazes than humans in stressful situations.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 10: David Eagleman and Sensory Substitution
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Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.Af Explain the Brain
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Bonus Episode: Paul Zak and the Wonders of Oxytocin
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This neuroeconomist thinks he's found a reason why we do nice things for other people.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 9 Catherine Snow and the Development of Language
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What's really important when it comes to raising good readers? This Harvard psychologist has found parents matter even more than you might think.Af Explain the Brain
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What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?Af Explain the Brain
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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.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 6 Mahzarin Banaji and Unconscious Biases
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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://soun…
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Conventional thinking about brains and blame can be useless in a court of law.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 4 Jean Berko Gleason and How We Learn to Talk
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When it comes to learning language, kids aren't just copying adults.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 3 David Eagleman and Our Perception of Time
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That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 2: Karen Adolph and Babies on the Move
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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.Af Explain the Brain
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Ep. 1: Abigail Baird and Troublesome Teens
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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.Af Explain the Brain
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