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.