Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Studio 360 – Episode 847 – Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience – Proust was a Neuroscientist
Science writer Jonah Lehrer is just 26, but he’s already worked as a line cook at Le Cirque and in the lab of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Lehrer looks at the surprising ways artists like Paul Cezanne and Walt Whitman had insights into neurological concepts that scientists have taken years to prove.
In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial
This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her to memory-scanning electrodes and ran a test called Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature, or BEOS. Could this be coming to America anytime soon?
Wine and breakfast cereal: how expectations warp experience
A growing body of scientific work has studied how what we perceive ?- or think we perceive ?- can have less to do with reality than we think. In light of recent findings, Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large for Seed magazine and author of ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist,’ says it’s time to radically rethink notions like ‘you get what you pay for.’
Debate grows over the over-interpretation and misuse of fMRI scans
Function MRI, or fMRI, promises to map and discover new patterns of brain activity that were previously inaccessible. But are scientists so caught up in the possibilities of modern neuroscience that they are missing something? Guest: Jonah Lehrer, author of ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’