Braincast 023 - Driven by Emotion

Emotions are not just blessing or curse, they are much more. For example they are one way for the brain to talk to itself – via the body. They are the source of all our decisions. And first and foremost they are a way to survive.

MP3 File Duration: 19:00

If you are in need of something interesting to reed between christmas and new year´s eve: here are the brainy top ten of New Scientist 2008.

NEWS

• What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?
  
• Brains of autistic children slower at processing sound
  
• Never Let Them See You Sweat
  
• The Placebo Effect: Not All in Your Head
  
• Swapping your body becomes a virtual reality
  
• The secret sex signals in human sweat
  
• Thanks for the memories HM
  
• Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
  
• Is There Really an Epidemic of Depression?
  
• The Fear Factor
  
• Antidepressants make for Sad Fish
  
• Revovering Memories that never left
  
• Dogs Have a Nose for Inequity
  
• Time with dad is time well spent
  
• Bored? Your brain is disconnecting
  
• In the Brain, Justice is served from many Parts
  
• Sudoku puzzles show we're all capable of deductive reasoning
  
• Inside the Shopping Brain
  
• Medical jargon alters our understanding of disease
  
• Pareidolia
  
• Time to Grow Up
  
• Are daughters-in-law to blame for the menopause?
  
• How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam
  
• 2 : 0 für die Bitterschokolade
  
• The neuroenhancer-debate - starting with the Nature-article: Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy, commented by Mind Hacks: Mainstreaming cognitive enhancement and, from another perspective by Brain Waves The Case for Legal Cognitive Enhancement by the Healthy.
  

SHOWNOTES
It´s the time to play nice and easy music, so we start smoothly with Brian Turner and Midnight Caravan, continue with the easy, autumn-like guitar of Dan Tharp and Ian and round it up with the wonderful Beautiful Wife of Al Phlipp & The Woo Team.

Braincast 022 - Creative perception

Part 2 about senses and perception is about how the brain deals with incoming data. It shows that some things simply are droped, while others are constructed. A braincast about roses, gorillas, blind spots and two self-experiments.

MP3 File Duration: 18:06

If you haven´t seen it yet: here is the Gorilla on the field.

NEWS

• Jonestown (The Situation of Evil) Revisited
  
• Older people have more black and white dreams
  
• Illegal drug shows promise in treating trauma symptoms
  
• Religion alters visual perception
  
• Feed your brain: News from Neuroscience
  
• Still crazy (in love) after all these years
  
• Ginko Biloba fails drug test
  
• Sleep makes room for memories
  
• Marijuana Could Be Good for Memory — But Not if You Get High
  
• Monkey gossip hints at social origins of language
  
• In Bias Test, Shades of Gray
  
• The role of self-esteem in Obama's electoral success
  
• Brain reorganizes to make room for math
  
• Bird Brains: Are Parrots Smarter than a Human Two-Year Old?
  
• Brain implant allows mute man to speak
  
• Adultery for heroin users:
  
• A Brain Circuit for Bungee Jumping
  
• Can everyone be an Einstein?
  
• We're better at spotting fake smiles when we're feeling rejected
  
• Fitness and the Brain: Can a Walk a Day Keep Alzheimer's Away?
  
• The Meaning of Psychological Abnormality
  
• Amoebae Family Values
  
• Down's symptoms may be treatable in the womb
  
• Memories may be stored on your DNA
  

SHOWNOTES
A crude stylemix this time, starting ambient with Briareus and Ivory Bills, continuing jazzy with Deerfoot and 22x and ending with a downtempo Christophe Goze and About Us.

Braincast 021 - Basics: Senses

In dealing with reality the brain might be quite creative, but the senses are not: They send in the real world, one gig of data per second. This and other impressive numbers in Braincast 21. Plus: seeing with the tongue.

MP3 File Duration: 16:23

NEWS

• Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked
  
• How parasites spread religion
  
• Primate researchers ask the big questions
  
• Molecular Motor Tied to Memory
  
• Is cannabis being doped with Viagra?
  
• Why Do We Forget Things?
  
• Can animals escape the present?
  
• Suffering Souls, via MindHacks 
  
• The Science of Gossip: Why We Can't Stop Ourselves
  
• Is mirror neuron activity just a mirage?
  
• Rare, profound positive events won't make you happy, but lots of little ones will
  
• The Maverickiness Paradox
  
• Getting Hooked on Sin
  
• Itch
  
• Connectomics - Tracing the Wires of the Brain
  
• Mom and Dad Are Fighting in Your Genes—and in Your Brain
  
• Mirror Neurons
  
• Undoing cocaine's consequences
  
• How warfare shaped human evolution
  

SHOWNOTES
We start nice and easy with Hack & Tear from Doubleplay & La Bella, continue likewise with Dave Percell and Eternal Traveler and end quite and beautiful on Berwick Road by the Dave Lambert Band.

Braincast 020 - Autists and Savants

Autism is quite extreme: affected people shrink into theirselfs, live complicated rituals and have trouble understanding emotions. But out of autism can arise a real wonder: the savant syndrome, showing the real possibilities of the brain.

MP3 File Duration: 16:45

Here is The Boy With The Incredible Brain.

NEWS

• Nicotine´s new appeal
  
• The mental wealth of nations
  
• The mental wealth of nations
  
• Being a daddy makes you kinder and smarter
  
• Being a daddy makes you kinder and smarter
  
• General Stuff I Blog About: Dopamine!
  
• The age when children begin attempting to appear racially colour-blind
  
• Should you let your toddler watch TV?
  
• Why Children Like to Share - People are programmed to avoid inequality
  
• Immune to Anxiety
  
• Magnet triggers colours in 'blind' man's brain
  
• Brain scans show the difference between love and hate
  
• In the age of paranoia, my MTV wants me
  
• Are brain damaged people who confabulate even trying to remember?
  
• An iron will runs in the family
  
• Memory Problems? Perhaps you are Multitasking
  
• Memory Problems? Perhaps you are Multitasking
  
• Older people are less optimistic, but more realistic
  

SHOWNOTES
Somehow, piano seems to be the right choice: we begin with Brian Drotar and Melodic Memory continue with Remember When by Carlos Tabora and – rather soundtrack – Graeme Hindmarsh and The Lady. The last title is Equinoxal by Incidental Fusion.

Braincast 019 - Stress

Stress is not just stress – it was designed to safe our life. But nowadays we even have stress with stress, and this is just sassy. In this episode you find some inner-headly backgrounds. And even some good news.

MP3 File Duration: 16:36

NEWS

• Searching for Intelligence in Our Genes
  
• Are Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking?
  
• Loving bonobos have a carnivorous dark side
  
• Why Schizophrenics Smoke
  
• Vitamin D Deficiency
  
• Monkeys move paralysed muscles with their minds
  
• Man 'roused from coma' by a magnetic field
  
• Grieving voles hint at why human relationships last
  
• Never gamble with an autistic opponent
  
• When thoughts of death turn to environmentalism
  
• Time to wake up to the facts about sleep
  
• Bacteria that do logic
  
• Redefining Depression as Mere Sadness
  
• Self-belief boosts problem solving success
  
• Creationists declare war over the brain
  
• Warm Hands, Warm Hearts
  
• Fear, Death and Politics: What Your Mortality Has to Do with the Upcoming Election
  

SHOWNOTES
Fast forward and Blazej Lindner is jazzy and the title fits nicely. But before you start feeling to comfortable, we put you on the back seet of Baja Taxi of Brain Bucket. And why stop there – we end with the mean guitar of Danny Weis´Gunslinger.

Braincast 018 - The underestimated animal kingdom

Man is the pinnacle of creation and shall rule the world – that´s how we like it to be. But the difference between us and those brute animals is not that big, as this braincast demonstrates.

MP3 File Duration: 15:16

NEWS

• This Is Getting Out of Control
  
• Do we all have some synaesthetic ability?
  
• Crick was right about 'vision filter' in the brain
  
• Maths helps bees read the waggle dance
  
• Web content contributors seek attention not altruism
  
• Hypnosis, Memory and the Brain
  
• Hypnosis, Memory and the Brain
  
• Some coma patients 'feel pain'
  
• The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw
  

SHOWNOTES
Smart animals and some smoothing instrumentals – starting with Milo Firewater and Simple. Because it is not. Then I found this wonderful music of Dan Tharp – here with Beth. Very autumn! Another discovery is Danny Weis here with It's About Time!.

Braincast 017 - The world out there

It the world out there would exist without us noticing, has been a heavy disput between philosophers for centuries. With "neurological constructivism", neuroscience found a position that offers great possibilities.

MP3 File Duration: 16:37

Apposite to our topic here the link to the ongoing Visual Illusion-Contests.

NEWS

• Seeing double with Eli Lilly's antidepressant: 
  
• Practice, practice, practice ... the benefits are ongoing
  
• In the language of love, money talks
• Why Calories Taste Delicious: Eating and the Brain
  
• Cochlear Implants
  
• What is it about eye wiggling that helps people recover from trauma?
  
• Bad boys can blame behaviour on their hormones
  
• 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Genius
  
• Neuropod, episode 9/08
  
• Market Mess? Blame Your Brain
  

SHOWNOTES
Outside the leaves starting to fall. But that just the world outside – I decided to have on last summerday, a complete podsafe one. We start with Summerfeeling by Dreamweaver - instrumental. Next the first Reggae in Braincast: Time by David R Merry – after all these years. We close with La Cadence by easyflow! and the rather short – too short, I think – Rio by Brian Kelly.


Braincast 016 - Altruism

A peaceful topic at last: altruism, fairness, kindness. From scratch healthy brains are not capable of anything else – and they don´t want to, too. An episode of bright prospects.

MP3 File  Duration: 18:34

Enjoy Jaak Panksepp tickling his laughing rats.

NEWS

• You've Got to Be Flexible to Live in Complex Societies
  
• Sweet smells lead to sweet dreams
  
• The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project
  
• Wasps Make Peace With Past Enemies
  
• How ambitious mothers breed successful daughters
  
• This is the brain on age
  
• Chimps never forget a bum
  
• Baby's Little Smiles: Building a Relationship with Mom
  
• Window of opportunity for stroke treatment widens
  
• Antidepressants may harm male fertility
  
• Metaphors of the Mind: Why Loneliness Feels Cold and Sins Feel Dirty
  
• Human memory capacity is mahusive!
  

SHOWNOTES
Nice music for a nice topic: we start with Josh James and Piano, continue with Eletrix and Road to Rio and Christophe Goze and Hi Honey. The finish is an encore for Paul Borth and Paul in love.

Braincast 015 - Basics - Imaging Techniques

How do we know what we know about the brain? And why did it become so much so fast? Braincast 15 wraps this dry topic to digest easily.

MP3 File Duration: 19:20

This weeks link is a special one – an article on wired.com: Software spots the spin in political speeches.

NEWS

• Watching practice change the brain cortex
  
• The secret benefits of fandom
  
• Age-related changes in midbrain dopaminergic regulation of the human reward system
  
• Erotic self-stimulation and brain implants
  
• The Blue Brain shows gamma oscillations
  
• Eyes: A New Window on Mental Disorders
  
• A simple toy, and what it says about how we learn to mentally rotate objects
  
• Could an Inner Zombie Be Controlling Your Brain?
  
• Judging others by our own capabilities
  
• A quick guide to Free Will
  
• Online gamers are fit – physically if not mentally
  
• Exposing some holes in Libet's classic free will study
  
• Beauty and the Brain
  
• The Politics of Fear
  
• Isolation That Chills to the Bone

SHOWNOTES
Imaging techniques work best with electronic music, so I thought. Therefor we start with Alienation and Beggars And Kings - the Chillout mix, exaggerate with Ariaphonics and the Divine Light and end with a great Ben Parsons and Shawl.

Braincast 014 - Memory

No function of the brain gets criticised more often. But the reasons are mostly wrong, nobody really wants absolute memory, as Braincast 14 shows. That memory is a quite creative affair – that would be a neat critique.

MP3 File Duration: 18:57

Very speciall: Jill Bolte Taylor in TED-Talk about her own stroke.

NEWS

• Computers cause abnormal brain growth - proof!
  
• The Teen Brain
  
• Mirrors suppress people's prejudice
  
• Taking One for the Team
  
• New brain cells are essential for learning
  
• Daydream achiever
  
• Monogamy gene found in people
  
• Finding a Guy Who Looks Like Dear Old Dad
  
• Thinking about Not-Thinking: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation
  
• We remember more from our teens and early twenties than from any other time of life
  
• Humans Can Learn from Subliminal Cues Alone
  
• Chauvinists less unnerving than ambiguous men
  
• New brain study finds more synapses in men than in women
  
• The Way S/he Moves
  
• Want to make a complicated decision? Keep thinking
  
• Phantom Limb Cure: Retraining the Brain
  
• Watching the testosterone crash in anxious men who lose a contest
  
• Fruit Flies Feel Peer Pressure
  
• Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain
  

SHOWNOTES
Pianos in Braincast 14: The absolutly wonderful Piano Moods of Project M and Ash Verjee with Impromtu for Six Pianos.

Braincast 013 - Free will

The ship of free will is sinking – at least some influential brain researchers say so. Braincast 13 examines backgrounds and backdoors of one of the most controversial topics between our ears.

MP3 File Duration 17:01

This is just great: Woody Allan about his psychotherapy.

NEWS

• Automatic Mental Associations Predict Future Choices of Undecided Decision-Makers -- $
  
• Experienced drivers perceive the road differently
  
• The Stone-Age Mind in an Information-Age Situation
  
• Oldsters' New Fountain of Youth: Video Games
  
• Children learn rules of equality by age eight
  
• How to Disown a Body Part
  
• Why you should go with your gut feeling
  
• Wilder Penfield, Neural Cartographer, via Mind Hacks
  
• Look Closely, Doctor: See the Camera?
  
• Subconscious Decisions: Voting in Churches and Buying Designer Labels
  
• The Mind of the Market
  
• Why the world is a happier place
  

SHOWNOTES
It´s a pity to talk over this song: Alexander Blu and Concert. Very nice in beat and music as well is Coming Clean by Milo Firewater. We end with Trauma on the Dancefloor by Briareus – on a nearly optimistic note.

Braincast 012 - Best before

For decades they told us our brains were doomed, its cells vanish and we would become more dense every day. This is not invariably the case. That and more good news in a Braincast about the date of expiry.



MP3 File Duration: 16:00

As promised you´ll find those interesting rat brain robots here.

NEWS

• How recycling could keep your organs young
  
• You’re Bored, but Your Brain Is Tuned In
  
• Cannibalism & the shaking death: A new form of the disease & a possible epidemic
  
• A New State of Mind
  
• Are Running Shoes the Fountain of Youth?
  
• Are Running Shoes the Fountain of Youth?
  
• Why real and imagined disgust have the same effect
• 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
  
• Being your own therapist - Buddhist style
  
• The Danger of Stress
  
• Dear World: What kind of a person blogs?
  
• Confidence game
  
• Environmental cues affect how much you eat
  
• The Magpie in the Mirror
  
• DOPAMINE FENDS OFF ZZZZZ’S
  
• Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain
  
• The Face of Aggression
  
• Elephants master basic mathematics - with Video
  
• Undecided? Don't Be so Sure.
  
• Smells Like Danger
  

SHOWNOTES
We start nice and smooth with another great song from Deep Sea Dust: Lazy finger, continue with a little Jazz and Hyperion by Deerfoot and finish – for the higher note and to pacify those Jazz-Rock-haters among you – with the great piano of Jon Schmidt and All of me.

Braincast 011 - Basics: Structures

Limbic system, amygdala or neocortex – what does that actually mean? In Braincast 11 we are talking structure and layout of the brain. It might be a little dry. But it is imporatant.

MP3 File Duration: 16:12

One last time I´ll take two weeks off, but I leave you this great series of lectures of
Columbia University

NEWS

• Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
  
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Thinking about Morality
  
• Pathogens and Prayer
  
• To Sleep, Perchance to Forget
  
• Men do everything they do in order to get laid
  
• Why we think we're better than the rest - it's not all vanity
  
• Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
  
• Decision Making in the Brain: Eavesdropping on Neurons
  
• The Nose, an Emotional Time Machine
  
• Madness: Price of a Big Brain?
  
• Folklore gets it wrong on love matches
  
• Paralysed by humour? Don't make me laugh
  
• Eat less, weigh more
  
• Behavioral therapy can reverse chronic fatigue syndrome and increase prefrontal volume
  
• Mind games reveal people who are 'blind' to trust
  

SHOWNOTES
This episdode´s soundtrack starts with Christophe Goze and Breathing – beautiful as always. The second, rather quite title is David by Gary. Last, an easy listenig piece: Just Gone by Electrix.

Braincast 010 - Development

The 10th episode – a small anniversary with a closer look on the development of toddlers. It shows that TV is not that good, love is essential and experience is everything. And that even kids five months old wonder about grammatical mistakes.

MP3 File Duration: 18:25

Tomorrow we go vacation, so, again, the next episode will be published in two weeks.

NEWS

• Astrocytes are rising stars
  
• When Empathy moves us to Action-By Daniel Goleman
  
• If Anger Helps You Feel in Control, No Wonder You Can't Control Your Anger!
  
• Chunking toddlers
  
• Sleep loss produces false memories (but coffee might help!)
  
• To Trust or Not to Trust: Ask Oxytocin
  
• How Your Brain Can Control Time
  
• Obsessed Brains May Be Sluggish
  
• Why psychologists are asking children to touch their toes
  
• Old hayfever treatment could be best Alzheimer's drug
  
• The Thinking Bladder
  
• Rapid improvement in verbal fluency and aphasia following perispinal etanercept in Alzheimer's disease
  
• Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.
  
• Novelty seekers are biased to the right
  
• Sildenafil Treatment of Women With Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction
  
• Girls = Boys at Math
  
• Protein links Metabolism and circadian rhythms
  

SHOWNOTES
We begin with ericP and Waves In The Moonlight, continue quite funky with So Long from Katzengold change the style completly with Electrix and When Pluto plays PingPong, and finish with another style-U-turn via piano and Jon Schmidt`s All of Me.

Braincast 009 - Love

Real feelings at Braincast: vital, neurological and hormonal insights about infatuation, love and being dumped. Featuring voles and fidelity, homosexuality and hypothalamus, orgasms in scanners and bad news for men.



MP3 File Duration: 19:22

Still I´m within a lazy summer (with bad weather) – expect me to be back in two weeks.

NEWS

• Lovesickness: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/627/1
  
• Why we love: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-playing-field/200806/why-we-laugh
  
• Old and young: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/06/young-and-old-brains-differ-in-encoding.html#links
  
• Mirror Neurons: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-mirror-neuron-revolut
  
• Meditation: http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/06/opening_the_minds_eye_attentio.php#more
  
• Brain Journey: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33747/title/Journey_to_the_center_of_the_brain
  
• Mind and matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01brain.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
  
• Major and minor: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/07/why-are-musical-chords-cheerful-or.html
  
• Breathalyser: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14247-brain-breathalysers-may-scan-astronauts-for-stress.html
  
• Milgram, again: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01mind.html?_r=1&ei=5087&em=&en=c936b0cbb7f0ce86&ex=1215057600&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
  
• No fooling ourselves: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html?ei=5087&em=&en=529bfb6e3e5a4ff9&ex=1215057600&pagewanted=print
  
• Nature tv: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/07/nature-on-plasma-tv-not-as-beneficial.html
  
• Baby smiling, German, e.g.: http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/news/292688.html
  
• Relaxation/genes http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701221501.htm
  
• Nutrition: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/07/brain-foods.html
  
• Who you think of: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/07/mind-who-you-think-of.html
  
• Love makes blind: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14263-love-really-is-blind-or-at-least-blinkered.html
  
• Computer music: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002631
  
• Implant: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14277-brain-implant-helps-stroke-victim-speak-again.html
  
• Psychiatric genetics: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080709/full/454154a.html
  
• Frog´s selective hearing: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/3
  
• Stinking meaning: http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2008/07/fart_spray_and_disgust_more_ge.php
  

SHOWNOTES
First song is Traveler Alive from Chance´s End, second the promising Some Day I Will from Christophe Goze. The hidden track is Paul Borth with Paul in Love.

Braincast 008 - Basics: Braincells

This Braincast looks deep into the structure of our brain: what do brain cells look like, how do they operate, how do they communicate and – just a tiny start – how do meaning and decission emerge from that?


MP3 File

Here the link to the wonderful animation The Inner Life of the Cell.

It´s summer holiday in Germany, so every second time for eight weeks, I´m determined to be lazy.

SHOWNOTES
We start with 3pm´s and DreamWonders, second is Gary and Downtempo1 and the grande finale is performed by Chance´s End and Production to Perfection.

Braincast 007 - The Phantom Body

Are we our body? Or does it just carry us through the world? Braincast 7 is about this internal relationship of brain, body and mind. This is much more complex than it feels like, and has some strange side-effects, e.g. an orgasm in a foot.


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As promised the great TED-Talk with Jill Bolte Taylor talking about her stroke.

SHOWNOTES
We start with the beautiful David Emeny and Black Dust and end with CRS Official and Vanish.

Braincast 006 - Reward System

Man is driven by emotions. So the reward system promises heavenly joy once we reach our goal. This makes it rather a motivational system – and it´s one of the best ideas of evolution.



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Come and visit the Bionic Body Shop – the future´s so bright – I gotta wear shades ...

Btw - next week I´ll take a holiday!

SHOWNOTES
Christophe Goze and People Smiling kick of this episode and DigiTube close it with Storm Brewin.

Braincast 005 - A short History of Brain Science

The brain once was a cooling system and a soul organ. It consisted of cavities and gear wheels. Today we know better for we screen even the tiniest structures. Here a brief (historical) summary of models and methods.


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This is - as soon as Google has finished – the video with Dr. Helmut Wicht, rewarded lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, and me, dissecting a brain. So this is what it really looks like. It´s not translated yet, but ... isn´t a picture worth a thousand words ...

SHOWNOTES
Our look into the history of neuroscience starts on the piano with Rob Costlow and Reflections, becomes more technical with Project M and Love´s labour and finishes very easy with the Cool Rhythm of Brian Butler.

Braincast 004 - Intelligence

One of the most important application of the brain is intelligence. In this episode we talk about definitions, benchmark data and background, about where and what for.

Carl Zimmer interviews legendary neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga on bloggingheads.tv – very interesting.

SHOWNOTES
We start with a wonderful piece of ambient: Katie Turner and Slow. Completely different, but wonderful as well: Eve from Jr. To avoid becoming to slow, next a rather untypical song from Dreamweaver, called The Rhythm / Club Mix. We finish quitly and beautiful with Katzengold and Strandgut.


Braincast 003 - Emotional and other blindnesses

Between mind and brain there is room for different kinds of blindness. Some, like the face blindness – base on structural damage. Others – like emotional blindness – are grounded on lacks in parenting. In this episode we discuss both.



This weeks link goes to reading pigeons – one of Skinner´s tricks, as important as overhyped in that time.


SHOWNOTES
The titles of this episode are the more than wonderful Piano Moods of Project M – one of my all time favorites and great to write with. The second title is Calling Earth with Transmission.

Braincast 002 - Signal and Noise

Why do we have a brain at all? Not everybody needs it and it just burns up a lot of energy. But apart from our own body we have to deal with the world, have to decode it´s signals from all the noise ...




This weeks links are
- the free downloadable CIA book Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- the UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School-podcast on iTunes U (via)
- the great company Despair, inc. (via) - have fun!

SHOWNOTES
We start with the wonderful Deep Sea Dust and Surftech. Second a little jazz from DigiTube and Movin ­– you can even buy it. The last title is Shinny & Happy from Beats – not their best piece of music, but perfectly short.

Braincast 001 - Braincast one

Braincast is the podcast on the frequency of mind and brain. Episode one is a short description of what we are up to.



Here the Link to Barry Schwartz in a TED-Talk about The Paradox of Choice.

SHOWNOTES
Just two titles to start with: one of my podsafe-favorites DigiTube with Vintage Keys and Budha Building with So easy (instrumental) - good music for writing as well.