60-second Mind
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- Narrator: Vários
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- Duration: 8:56:37
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Synopsis
Leading science journalists provide a weekly one-minute commentary on the latest developments in the science of brain and behavior. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American . To view all our archived podcasts please visit: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast
Episodes
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More Football Players Found to Suffer from Degenerative Disease
07/08/2011 Duration: 01minThe Canadian Sports Concussion Project announced the results from brain autopsies of four CFL football players. Two of the players suffered from the degenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Christie Nicholson reports
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Panic Attack Sufferers Are Unaware of Symptoms
30/07/2011 Duration: 01minPanic attacks seem to come out of nowhere, but research finds symptoms appear up to one hour before the sufferer is aware of the attack. Christie Nicholson reports
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Compulsive Gamblers Combine Impulsiveness with Irrationality
17/07/2011 Duration: 01minCompulsive gamblers seeking treatment were more impulsive and more likely to be superstitious than were non-gamblers. Steve Mirsky reports
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Hot Baths May Cure Loneliness
02/07/2011 Duration: 01minRecent research finds that taking a hot bath can cure loneliness. Christie Nicholson reports
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Paying in Cash Keeps Us Healthy
25/06/2011 Duration: 01minRecent research finds that our vices can be held back when we use cash instead of credit cards at the grocery store. Christie Nicholson reports
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Small Study: Young Gang Members Want Dogs Mostly for Companionship
18/06/2011 Duration: 01minA study of 25 young gang and group members in South Wales found that they wanted dogs less as weapons or protection and mostly for companionship and socialization. Steve Mirsky reports
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Inattentional Blindness Can Make You Not Perceive Events
11/06/2011 Duration: 01minResearch finds that a cop who testified that he ran past a beating without seeing it could be telling the truth. Christie Nicholson reports
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Math Learning Disability as Common as Dyslexia
04/06/2011 Duration: 01minResearch has found that dyscalculia, a learning disability focused around number and math concepts, is as common as dyslexia. Christie Nicholson reports
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The Blind Use the Visual Cortex to Process Sound
28/05/2011 Duration: 01minRecent research has confirmed that in blind subjects who use echolocation to navigate, it is the visual part of the brain that processes the auditory echoes. Christie Nicholson reports
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Rude People Can Be Perceived as Powerful
22/05/2011 Duration: 01minPowerful people often bend the rules, so if someone is a rule-breaker could they be perceived as powerful? Christie Nicholson reports
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How to Speak Persuasively
14/05/2011 Duration: 01minDiscover how to successfully persuade others with these findings from a recent study on speech. Christie Nicholson reports
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Know Thyself
07/05/2011 Duration: 01minA recent review paper shows that we might not know ourselves as well as we think. Christie Nicholson reports
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First Impressions Can Be Quite Accurate
30/04/2011 Duration: 01minA study about the perception of neighborhoods reveals that our gut instinct based on the physical features of the neighborhood is highly accurate. Christie Nicholson reports
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Reading the Mind to Restore Speech
25/04/2011 Duration: 01minBy just thinking about, or saying, certain words, people can control a computer cursor. Christie Nicholson reports
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Our Uhs and Ums May Help Children Learn Language
17/04/2011 Duration: 01minWe think we should remove any ums and uhs when we talk, especially when teaching children language. New research finds that such pauses may be useful. Christie Nicholson reports
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Yawns Are Contagious When You're with Friends
10/04/2011 Duration: 01minResearch with chimpanzees finds that chimps yawn more around other yawning chimps from their own community than with those from a separate community. Christie Nicholson reports
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People with Tourette Syndrome Show Strong Cognitive Control
02/04/2011 Duration: 01minResearch finds that increased brain activity in key areas is tightly linked to an ability to control the tics caused by Tourette syndrome. Christie Nicholson reports
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First Sex Alters Body Image
27/03/2011 Duration: 01minA recent assessment of undergrads reveals a gender difference in how the students see their bodies after their first sexual intercourse. Christie Nicholson reports
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Self-Restraint Leads Us to Prefer Aggression
20/03/2011 Duration: 01minResearch shows that when we practice self-restraint, we also tend to prefer aggressive messaging and movies. Christie Nicholson reports
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Right-Handers Tend to Prefer the Right Side
13/03/2011 Duration: 01minRecent research in the journal Psychological Science found that righties tend to prefer the right side of anything (spatially speaking) and lefties the left. Christie Nicholson reports