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A Neuroscientist Explains
Former Observer columnist Dr Daniel Glaser delves into topical culture as seen through the lens of a neuroscientist. Each episode, he takes one of his weekly columns and digs a little deeper...
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A Neuroscientist Explains: how we read words
For our final episode of this series, Daniel Glaser (with a little misguided help from his producer Max) attempts to unpick what the brain d...
A Neuroscientist Explains: where perception ends and hallucination begins
When it comes to perceiving the world around us, how much of it is due to ‘bottom-up’ sensory data and how much comes from the ‘top-down’ pr...
A Neuroscientist Explains: how whooping increases your enjoyment
Daniel Glaser explores the complex relationship between mind and body when it comes to emotion
A Neuroscientist Explains: psychology's replication crisis
Daniel Glaser apprehensively revisits an article of his that saw some fallout due to a study he cited. But that study was not the only one i...
A Neuroscientist Explains: the evolutionary origins of social behaviour
What clues can our evolutionary past give us about human behaviour in the here and now? And, bearing in mind the likes of the recent #MeToo...
A Neuroscientist Explains: is the internet addictive?
Dr Daniel Glaser is back. To kick off season two he asks whether there is a connection between reward and addiction. And can we really get a...
A Neuroscientist Explains: season two trailer
Dr Daniel Glaser and Producer Max are back for a second season of A Neuroscientist Explains – and this time they’re going it alone!
A neuroscientist explains: teaching morality to robots
Dr Daniel Glaser delves into the murky world of Artificial Intelligence and asks whether true intelligence can exist without an understandin...
A neuroscientist explains: magnetic resonance imaging
Dr Daniel Glaser explores the history and science behind a well known method of brain imaging, including a trip for producer Max into an MRI...
A neuroscientist explains: listener's emails about empathy
Responding to some of our listener’s emails, Dr Daniel Glaser ponders whether dogs have a Theory of Mind, the neuroscience behind bilinguali...
A neuroscientist explains: how we perceive the truth
Dr Daniel Glaser explores what the wiring of the brain can tell us about how we perceive the world
A neuroscientist explains: listener's emails about memory
Responding to some of our listener’s emails, Dr Daniel Glaser explores the role of photographs for recall, and the vividness of musical memo...
A neuroscientist explains: the need for ‘empathetic citizens’
What is the neuroscience behind empathy? When do children develop it? And can it be taught?
A neuroscientist explains: how the brain stores memories
How do brains and computers differ when it comes to memory storage? And what clues can we get from the ageing brain?
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