What am I? Challenge your perception of reality.
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -"What am I?" is a place that will challenge your perception of reality and make you question your assumptions of yourself. In each episode, a guest will share what we've learned from Neuroscience that explains why our mindsets can be so different from one another, and why it's hard to open up our minds for change.
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Ep. 3 - In conversation with Dr. Pascal Wallisch: Agree to disagree.
March 14, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBYou are right, and everyone else is wrong. Okay, maybe not everyone else but a lot of people. No matter what subject that is, we tend to think we are right most of the time. After all, being right is soothing, while being wrong is a threat to our status. But, if you are not wrong, how can you learn? How can you avoid new mistakes if there aren't any? How can you improve your behavior? In this episode, Dr. Pascal Wallisch and I discuss why using your perceptions as a baseline for understand...
Ep. 2 - In conversation with Dr. Rebecca Hirst: What You See Is What You Hear.
January 01, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBDo you hear what I hear? Hearing is a two-step process. We first capture sound waves but then our brains combine that information with data from other senses and our priors. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rebecca Hirst, who is a post-doc researcher at The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing - TILDA, who focuses on understanding how information from different sensory inputs is integrated and generates our perceptions. One of her main studies focuses on the Sound Induced Flash Illusion, or SIF...
Deep-dive into Episode 1: Am I anxious?
October 30, 2020 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBThiago and Katie recap and review topics covered in "Ep. 1 - In conversation with Dr. Nii Addy: Am I anxious?"
Ep. 1 - In conversation with Dr. Nii Addy: Am I anxious?
September 09, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBAre you anxious? We certainly are. This year has brought some bad and unexpected news for all of us. Some people have lost their jobs, many are stuck at home, and others need to face the fear of going out to care for others. Add to that, civil unrest and the current division happening across the world, and it makes for some interesting times. In this first episode, Thiago Sindra talks to the neuroscientist Dr. Nii Addy, who is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Cellular and Molecul...
Why this podcast?
April 28, 2020 03:00 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MBIn this very first trailer episode, Thiago describes what this podcast is about. This is an idea that's been evolving for a while and now became a podcast. Society is hurting, and despite of having good intentions we're always fighting for our space and stability. Understanding ourselves is the first step to comprehending others and making society better. How can the study of the brain can make us more open to challenging our perception of reality and questioning what we believe to know abou...