Is What We Knew About the Brain All Wrong?

Mind Matters

Sep 19 2019 | 00:32:19

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Show Notes

Robert J. Marks and Yuri Danilov discuss what we thought we knew about the brain twenty years ago, and how what we think we know now might change in another twenty years. Bringing their conversation to a close, Bob and Yuri also get into the innumerable details of our phenomenally complex human visual system and consider whether our actions are initiated by a homunculus. Show Notes 00:00 | Dangling questions 01:00 | Comparing male and female color perception 02:00 | What is glia which fills the brain? 04:30 | The functions of glia 07:50 | A miseducation in brain science Read More ›

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