Cognitive neuroscience
Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It turns out that a quirk in the way human brains process information means that when something becomes rare, we sometimes see it in more places than ever.
Is Empathy Inherited or Taught? Listeners Respond
Is empathy inherited? Is it taught? Dr. Perri Klass shared her thoughts and recent findings with the Takeaway and listeners are sharing their opinions. Caroline from Detroit says: “I think empathy comes more naturally to kids and we have to be retaught it as we get older.” Bruce from the Florida Keys agrees: “Empathy like sociopathy […]
Consciousness, Poetry, and Bilingual Babies
In this week's World in Words podcast, we take a trip inside the mind. Rhitu Chatterjee takes us through some of the recent research into the bilingual brain. Also, theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey gives us his take on consciousness, and why language may be only a small part of it. Then we consider poetry, which […]