Bees are remarkable among insects. They can count, remember human faces, and communicate through dance routines performed entirely in the dark. But are they intelligent? Even creative? Bee aficionado Stephen Humphrey, along with a hive of leading bee researchers and scientists, investigates the mental lives of bees.
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Dancing In The Dark: The Intelligence of Bees
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V. S. Ramachandran - Tales from the Brain
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, eminent neurologist V. S. Ramachandran offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the uniquely human brain in his new book, The Tell-Tale Brain.
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Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolf
Brain science podcast and interview with Maryanne Wolf - how the brain processes language.
Tagged with linguistics language brain cognition reading development science
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Oliver Sacks
Neurologist Oliver Sacks tells stories of people who manage to navigate the world and communicate, despite losing what many consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the ability to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and to see. In The Mind’s Eye he considers the fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think?
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Radiolab: Words
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2010/09/10
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke.
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The Critical Early Years of Language Development: You Can’t Say What you Don’t Hear
Dr. Anna Meyer, UCSF Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, explores how hearing and speech develop and why the early years are so critical.
Tagged with language biology neuroscience otolaryngology speech cognition
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Big Ideas: Minding Memory
What’s in a memory? An original in the field of memory research, Endel Tulving shares his insights. Mental time-travel through what he terms "episodic memory" may have been one of "the drivers of the evolution of culture". A free-wheeling conversation with Marilyn Powell about memory and the mind.
Tagged with cognition science memory endel tulving thought brain humanity episodic memory
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Red Mondays and Gemstone Jalapeños: The Synesthetic World
"Synesthesia is the blending or mixing of senses. A synesthete, for example, might see colors when listening to music or taste flavors when hearing a word. Dr. David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine explains this strange condition, and four synesthetes explain how they perceive the world."
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?fID=572&rID=29222
Offers both audio and video podcasts
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Futures in Biotech 46: Towards Computers That Think
An interview with Dr. Terrence Sejnowski about theoretical and computational biology and neurobiology.
Guest: Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute
http://futuresinbiotech.com/blog/2009/9/8/futures-in-biotech-46-towards-computers-that-think.html
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Zach Lynch: The Neuro Revolution
Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically transform how we all work, live and play.
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