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Sep 13, 2008

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.
Gepostet von Arvid Leyh unter 2:32 PM

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