Interviews

Interview Compilations

Alan Baddeley - Working Memory
Learn about the working memory model and its history
Alym Amlani - The Psychology of Magic
Linking cognitive psychology and magic
Angela Friederici - Language and the Brain
How is language processed in the brain?
David Strayer - Driver Distraction
Cell-phones and driving - why does it increase risk?
Deb Stenkamp - Neurogenesis
How neurons can be rebuilt
Edward Awh - Working Memory and Attention
How are working-memory capacity and attention related?
Geoff Boynton - fMRI studies of Attention
The neural basis for attention.
Gerd Gigerenzer - Decision Making
How to make decisions in an uncertain world
Giacomo Rizzolatti - Mirror Neurons
What are mirror neurons?
Ione Fine - Neural Plasticity
Brain plasticity - how a blind person recovered sight
Jamie Ward - Synesthesia
Perceiving the world in more ways than one.
Larry Squire - Neuroscience of declarative long-term memory
Long-term memory research in humans and other mammals.
Marlene Behrmann - Attention and Perception Disorders
Attention, Hemispatial Neglect, and Prosopagnosia
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe - MCI and Dementia
Diagnosis and intervention in mild cognitive impairments and dementia
Michael Posner - Neuroscience of Attention
What can we learn from modern neuroscience research in attention?
Niels Birbaumer - Brain Computer Interfaces
Finding a direct link to a patient's brain
Robert A. Bjork - Long-Term Memory
Improving memory by improving learning strategies
Roberta Klatzky - Haptic Perception
How to perceive through manual exploration.
Ron Rensink - Visual Attention and Change Blindness
Our visual memory is not as good as we think...
Scott Murray - Visual Perception and Illusions
How the brain make sense of the external world
Title Description Interviewee Producer Duration
Additional cues in communication There are many other issues in language processing that are important – the distribution of attention, eye gaze, gestures, and many more work together in a normal communication. Angela Friederici goCognitive 00:01:35
Alan Baddeley - Working Memory Dr. Alan Baddeley has been one of the leading researchers in the field of working memory. His model of working memory, published with Dr. Graham Hitch in 1972, has been one of the seminal models to guide research in memory. In his interview with... Alan Baddeley goCognitive
Alym Amlani - The Psychology of Magic Magic has always played tricks with human cognition - by manipulating attention, distorting perceptions, or modifying memories. In this interview, Vancouver-based magician Alym Amlani, who also has a degree in psychology and visual cognition from... Alym Amlani goCognitive
Alzheimers, Dementia, and Mild Cognitive Impairment: An Overview In this interview with goCognitive, Dr. Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe gives an overview of dementias and mild cognitive impairments. Dr. Schmitter-Edgecombe is a neuropsychologist at Washington State University who is looking into the effects of... Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe goCognitive 00:19:06
An Emotional Mirror Mechanism Apart from the mirror mechanism found in the motor system, there seems to be good evidence for a similar mechanism for the perception of emotion. Dr. Rizzolatti notes that the same regions that are active when one is in pain are the same as the... Giacomo Rizzolatti goCognitive 00:03:22
An example of adaptive memory in real life Dr. Bjork explains the interplay between storage strength and retrieval strength through a real-world example. When moving to a new place or into a new job, a person's memory will have to adjust to the new situation by making the new... Robert A. Bjork goCognitive 00:02:18
Anatomy of Mirror System Pathways One of Dr. Rizzolatti's research goals as a neurophysiologist is to understand the anatomical pathways of the mirror mechanism. By using fMRI and tracers he is trying to find the brain centers involved in mirror neuron activity and to determine... Giacomo Rizzolatti goCognitive 00:01:11
Angela Friederici - Language and the Brain Dr. Angela Friederici is a leading researcher in the field of psycholinguistics. She is the director of the Neuropsychology group at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests... Angela Friederici goCognitive
Animal models of synesthesia One of the powerful methods to investigate the neural basis of cognitive phenomena involves the use of animal models. Given that synesthesia is a personal experience, it seems hard to see how we could learn about it from animals. However, Dr. Ward... Jamie Ward goCognitive 00:02:28
Assessing quality of life Quality of life is an important concept when interacting with patients. While most people assume that quality of life must be poor for patients with locked-in syndrome, Dr. Birbaumer challenges these assumptions and tries to answer this basic... Niels Birbaumer goCognitive 00:04:12

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