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90. Best of: Brains Love Stories – How Leveraging Neuroscience Can Capture People’s Emotions

2023/5/16
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The episode explores how our brains are wired for storytelling, emphasizing the importance of narrative structures in capturing and sustaining attention.

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In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams sits down with David Eagleman, a neuroscientist and the host of the PBS series The Brain, to discuss why our brains are wired for storytelling and how new senses might impact our connection and communication with others.

“I’ve always been really interested in this idea of how we can pass information to the brain via unusual channels,” Eagleman) says. “We’ve got our eyes or ears or fingertips and our nose, we’re very used to this and we sort of think these are fundamental, but of course, this is just what we’ve inherited from a long road of evolution … It turns out you can push information in the brain in other ways.”

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