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.