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
Working memory and evolution An evolutionary perspective is a helpful tool to ask questions about the function of a particular cognitive function. Baddeley emphasizes that these kinds of questions led to important discoveries, for example the role of the phonological loop in... Alan Baddeley goCognitive 00:03:35
Working memory and language processing An understanding of a spoken sentence requires that the listener keeps many grammatical structures and words of the spoken sentence in memory. This clearly puts a load on working memory – the ability to retain information over time. In this part... Angela Friederici goCognitive 00:09:43

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