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Interview Archives: Neuroscience
Tuesday May 01, 2012, 10:06 AM
Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation: Analogous Processes on Different Levels
Thomas J. Anastasio, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Associate Professor of Biophysics; Associate Professor of Neuroscience; Member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois
Wenyi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate in Antropology, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
Knowing where you’ve been is essential to knowing who you are and where you are going. To that end, our brains take fleeting bits of information and put them together to construct a version of our past. We’ll learn more about the formation of memories, on the personal and societal levels, as we talk with Thomas Anastasio, associate professor of neuroscience, and Wenyi Zhang, a doctoral candidate, both from the University of Illinois. They say that groups of people remember and forget the same way individuals do.
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Thursday August 25, 2011, 10:06 AM
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine; Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action; Founder and Director of Baylor College of Medicine's Inititative on Neuroscience and Law
Host: David Inge
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Monday June 07, 2010, 10:06 AM
Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Stephen S. Hall, Award-Winning Science Writer; Adjunct Faculty, The Journalism School of Columbia University
Host: David Inge
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Wednesday March 31, 2010, 10:06 AM
Cognitive Neuroscience with an Emphasis on the Brain Across the Adult Lifespan
Arthur F. Kramer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, the Campus Neuroscience Program, the Institute of Aviation; and Full-time Faculty Member in the Beckman Institute Human Perception and Performance Group, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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- The University of Illinois' Neuroscience Program
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology's Human Perception and Performance Group
Categories: Behavior • Psychology • Science • Neuroscience
Wednesday November 22, 2006, 11:06 AM
The Honey Bee Genome Project
Gene Robinson, Professor of Integrative Biology, Professor of Entomology, and Director of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois, and Theme Leader and Professor at the Institute for Genomic Biology
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Ecology • Science • Genetics • Neuroscience
Tuesday October 24, 2006, 11:06 AM
THE IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS OR HOW 32 CARVED PIECES ON A BOARD ILLUMINATED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WAR, ART, SCIENCE, AND THE HUMAN BRAIN
David Shenk, Writer
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Entertainment • Science • Neuroscience
Monday September 11, 2006, 10:06 AM
ANALOGY AS THE CORE OF COGNITION
Douglas Hofstadter, College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of History and the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology at Indiana University; and winner of the Nonfiction Pulitzer Prize in 1980
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Psychology • Science • Neuroscience
Thursday December 08, 2005, 11:06 AM
BASIC INSTINCT: THE GENESIS OF BEHAVIOR
Mark S. Blumberg, Ph.D., Neuroscientist at the University of Iowa and an Associate Editor of Behavioral Neuroscience
Host: David Inge
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Friday March 25, 2005, 10:06 AM
POSTCARDS FROM THE BRAIN MUSEUM
Brian Burrell, Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Host: David Inge
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, February 03, 2005, 11 am
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Wednesday May 05, 2004, 11:06 AM
WIDER THAN THE SKY: THE PHENOMENAL GIFT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Host: David Inge
Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., director of the Neurosciences Institute, president of Neurosciences Research Foundation, professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1972
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