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Our eyes’ ability to detect color deteriorates with age, but our brains compensate.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Electrical stimulation to the brain can improve math performance.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Just remember this: Even our memories of dramatic events that seem to burn themselves directly into our brain are riddled with errors.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, WNJR, and KVSC
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Olympic-level athletes have some enhanced cognitive abilities.
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A chemist turned neuroscientist maps the motivational state of hunger
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 14:48
Prof. Werner R. Lowenstein discussed quantum physics and the mind.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 23:27
- Purchases: 3
Humans are pattern seeking animals – and the silhouette of Elvis appears in our burrito. Does that mean The King is speaking to us through TexMex?...
Bought by KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Mood can affect older adults’ performance on cognitive tests.
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Children are better at forming long-term memories than adults for a surprising reason.
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Big brains are detrimental in some animal species.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A brain imaging study supports growing evidence linking fructose to weight gain.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The hormone oxytocin has many functions in the human body. Scientists now think it may also help deter cheating.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Peter Morgan can decide what he wants to do in his dreams. A research psychiatrist at Yale University, Dr. Morgan studies and practices lucid dream...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 11:56
The brain has two very different mechanisms for erasing bad memories.
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 01:00
The insulation surrounding nerves develops more quickly in chimpanzees than in humans.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Before you chase it with a broom, consider this: Without the rat, we might miss critical insights into the nature of stress, cancer … and even love...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 54:32
- Purchases: 2
A combo of critical thinking; from tracking Bigfoot and magic’s ability to fool the brain to whether a study about music supports the “Mozart Effec...
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
A mélange of surprising subjects from why humans are more like ants than are chimpanzees … to Jonah Lehrer on the creative brain.
Bought by KREV-LP and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Colin Camerer is one of the pioneers of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and traditional economic theory. Our convers...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 31:46
We crave order in things, but we can’t iron out every chaotic crease, nor would we want to: from brain cell activity to the evolution of species, ...
Bought by KREV-LP and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 26, 2012
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Distillations we look at the science of sports. First, we learn how athletes go the distance, chemically speaking. Then we look ...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 11:37
- Purchases: 1
