Lectures tagged "brain"

Shankar Vedantam: The Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam: The Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam
February 9, 2010
00:57:17
Washington Post columnist Shankar Vedantam discusses his book The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.
This Is Your Brain on Love
Helen Fisher
February 4, 2009
01:18:19
Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, identifies four broad personality types, each governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Love is no longer blind, thanks to pioneering scientific research, based on her unique study of 40,000 men and women.
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Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum
Barbara Stafford
March 22, 2007
01:12:40
Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience.
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Promise and Peril: The Future of the Brain
Steven Rose
March 16, 2005
01:21:09
Steven Rose lectures on the potentially dangerous future of neurosciences, and the possible impact it may have on the definition of humanity.