#230: Measuring Intuition with Dr. Joel Pearson
Some aspects of our internal mental life seem to defy measurement. "Intuition" seems like a...
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Last-minute cramming (even on lots of nootropics) isn't the best gameplan for effective learning....
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#228: Perception as a Controlled Hallucination
Our senses provide us with a best-guess interpretation of reality -- but it's only a guess. Dr....
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#227: How Language Affects Thought
Is "a rose by any other name" still a rose... to your brain? Dr. Viorica Marian explains how the...
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#226: The Return of Metabolism
You don't think much about your electricity until the power goes out. And human metabolism is...
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#225: Schizophrenia with Dr. Tyrone Cannon
"Schizophrenia" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts (and minds) of those who have seen its...
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#224: Don’t forget about Prospective Memory
Prospective Memory is something we notice most when it fails -- when we recall (too late!)...
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#222 – What are “Fast-Spiking Interneurons”?
What are "interneurons" and how do they affect our brains' ability to function, to change, and to...
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#221: Marijuana, the Non-Medical Kind ;)
It's easier to smoke marijuana legally these days than it is to study it. Strange, but true....
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#220: Cognitive Fallacies with Dr. Richard E. Nisbett
Social scientists have built up a wealth of knowledge about the ways the human brain reliably...
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#219 – Aphantasia with Dr. Joel Pearson
Some people's minds don't come equipped with a "mind's eye." We call these people aphantasics --...
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#218 – Oxytocin, Love and Social Awareness
For our special Valentine's Episode, we look at the hormone Oxytocin...sometimes called "the love...
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#217: Fighting Migraines with Dr. Sid Kapoor
Sometimes the brain can seem like it has a "self-destruct" button. Migraine headaches and...
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#216: Music and Creativity with Dr. Psyche Loui
Music, maybe second only to language, seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the...
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#215: Social Illusions with Dr. Erica Boothby
Optical Illusions are interesting "glitches." But social illusions -- and there are MANY --...
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#214 – Ibogaine with Dr. Emeline Maillet
Ibogaine could be an effective therapy against addiction -- or it could be (literally) the cure...
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213: Sleep Deprivation with Dr. Paul Whitney
As biological imperatives go, sleep is the one we need less than air and water, but more than...
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#212 – Multi-Lingual Brains with Dr. Ellen Bialystok
Conventional wisdom holds that knowing more languages is "good for your brain." But what makes...
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