A Neuroscientist Explains

• 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 does – and doesn’t do – when we read

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• 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’ predictions we make? Most importantly; how can the delicate dance between the two lead to hallucinations?

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• A Neuroscientist Explains: how whooping increases your enjoyment

  Daniel Glaser explores the complex relationship between mind and body when it comes to emotion

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• 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 involved in what is now being called a crisis for psychology and further afield

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• 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 movement, does social conformity have a dark side?

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