Confabulations aren’t true, but the person making the claims doesn’t realize it. Neuroscience now knows that confabulations are common and continuous in the both the healthy and the afflicted, but in the case of Cotard’s delusion they are magnified to grotesque proportions. One of the leading neuroscientists in our era, maybe the leading neuroscientist, is V.S. Ramachandran, and he is the guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
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You Are Not So Smart Podcast – Confabulation, V.S. Ramachandran
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The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain
Our brains are filled with billions of neurons. Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung explains how mapping out the connections between those neurons might be the key to understanding the basis of things like personality, memory, perception, ideas and mental illness.
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147190092/the-man-working-to-reverse-engineer-your-brain
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Brains
Samad Aidane - Jonathan Jordan reveals the "7 Habits of Highly Effective Brains", based on his recent presentation to the United States Senate staff.
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RSA Debate: Neuromania? The possibilities and pitfalls of our fascination with brains
Neuro-aesthetics, neuro-evolutionary literary cricitism, neuro-ethics, neuro-law and neuro-theology - has the cult of ‘neuromania’ left us with a hollow, reductive account of human nature? Are we just a bunch of neurons firing in some soft tissue? Is society just a bunch of brains interacting? Can fMRI scans explain love, creativity, altruism, evil and religious beliefs?
Recent advances in neuroscience have taken the world by storm – they allow us an incredible insight into the motivations for our nature and behaviour, and have deepened our understanding of what it means to be human. They allow us greater compassion for each other’s faults and actions (which are suddenly seen to be not quite so intentional) but limit our responsibility for our own actions (my enlarged amygdala made me do it).
But has our fascination with the discipline gone too far – does all this searching for the ‘God-spot’ somehow diminish the importance of taking a leap of faith?
Philosopher and author Professor Raymond Tallis and RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor debate the competing claims made for the ability of neuroscience to explain human behaviour, culture and society.
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Desperately Seeking Symmetry
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence—from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.
Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece , head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.
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Nature Podcast Extra: David Eagleman
Neuroscientist, writer and ‘possibilian’ David Eagleman popped into the podcast studio to tell Charlotte Stoddart about his new book on the secret, subconscious, lives of the brain. Find out how much of what you think and perceive is subconscious (more than you might expect!) and how neuroscience could change the way we think about criminal behaviour and punishment.
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BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Over the last ten to twenty years, new research has shed fresh light on important aspects of the infant brain which have long been shrouded in mystery or mired in dispute, from the way we start to learn to speak to the earliest understanding that other people have their own minds.
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On Point: How Cooking Made Us Human
We were apes before we were humans. But humans were the onetime apes who ultimately mastered fire and cooked.
Primatologist and anthropologist Richard Wrangham says that in evolutionary terms, that made all the difference. And not just because it put flambé on the menu.
Fire meant proto-humans could cook. Cooking, he says, meant they could get dense, empowering nourishment. Then came bigger brains, a different body and — voila! — homo sapiens. Complete, he says, with a social structure built around that fire.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/how-cooking-made-us-human