neuroscience

Raízes da Curiosidade: Tempo de Ciência e Arte, a perspectiva da curadora do projecto, à conversa com Madalena Wallenstein

Recorded on 2015-11-19

Neste podcast, Madalena Wallenstein dá a sua visão sobre o projeto de arte e ciência “Raízes da Curiosidade: Tempo de Ciência e Arte” e fala sobre o culminar do ciclo com o lançamento de um livro onde os intervenientes (duplas cientista-artista, criadores da ideia original, diretores artisticos e curadora) refletem sobre o processo de criação. […]

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When the Mind is the Medium; On the New Connections between Art and Neuroscience

Recorded on 2015-11-16

Ellen Levy discusses the burgeoning work at the nexus between the arts and neurosciences today. There is a renewed interest in how artists can provide outlooks insights and new approaches for cognitive and neuroscientists. and recognises the inadequacies of contemporary science to understand subjective experience, qualia and consciousness . She notes that some qualia can […]

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Ephemerality and Cultural Memory in Digital Performances

Recorded on 2015-09-07

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Henry Daniel received his training as a dancer both in the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe – which provides him with a specific relationship to dance and African expressions. I engaged him in a conversation on the very notion of ephemerality in dance and the connections between rituals and […]

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Creativity is a Pretty Hard Problem

Recorded on 2015-09-03

Jack McKay Fletcher discusses with Roger Malina the idea that ‘creativity’ is the category of ‘hard problems” as developed by philosopher David Chalmers. Or perhaps a “pretty hard problem”with sub areas that can be modularised, and identified with particular brain functions and regions, but is primarily systemic brain activities of the ‘hard problem’ type such […]

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A Neuroscience Story: From Mexico to Waco, from Waco to Dallas

Recorded on 2015-04-03

Nanjing Gao was born and raised in Mexico City to Chinese parents. She is currently a student pursuing her Masters in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas. She completed her B.S. in Neuroscience with a minor in Spanish at Baylor University. She worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience research lab at […]

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Fear with Dr. Aage Moller

Recorded on 2019-04-01

A conversation with Professor Aage Moller on irrational fear and how it impacts our decision making.  Bumper by Ritwik Kaikini

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