Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David Eagleman
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Dr. David Eagleman, PhD, is a neuroscientist, bestselling author and professor at Stanford University. We discuss how to leverage the science of neuroplasticity to learn new skills and information and how accurate and false memories form and are forgotten. We also discuss time perception and why it speeds up or slows down depending on our age and stress level. We cover dreaming and the meaning of visual and other dream content. And we discuss the neuroscience of cultural and political polarization and how to remedy it. This episode provides science-based knowledge and practical tools you can use to enhance learning and better understand your experience of life in the past, present and future.
Articles
- Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex (Nature)
- Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (Science)
- The effect of social networks on the relation between Alzheimer's disease pathology and level of cognitive function in old people: a longitudinal cohort study (The Lancet Neurology)
- Lack of long-term cortical reorganization after macaque retinal lesions (Nature)
- Time and the brain: how subjective time relates to neural time (The Journal of Neuroscience)
- Vision substitution by tactile image projection (Nature)
- Does time really slow down during a frightening event? (PLOS ONE)
- A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General)
- Echolocation by Blind Men, Bats and Radar (Science)
- The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
- The formation of false memories (Psychiatric Annals)
- Empathic Neural Responses Predict Group Allegiance (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
- Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping (Neuron)
- Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others (Nature)
Books
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Other Resources
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- Shane MacGowan: singer-songwriter
- Craig Ferguson: actor, comedian
About this Guest
Dr. David Eagleman
Dr. David Eagleman, PhD, is a neuroscientist, bestselling author and professor at Stanford University.
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