Mind PodCast

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2 More senses, smell and taste. We will continue on our journey along the senses. Today we will answer two important questions: What to do against skunks and why not use humans in finding heroin. Also we have a look at:

• Stereochemical theory of odors
• Olfactoric bulbs? Yes you have them…
• Why females smell better than males
• The T-shirt test
• Tast = cultural
• The after effect

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Interesting link: Smell and Taste disorders

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We are learning more and more on the different senses. After last week discussing the vision, today we have a look at hearing. You will learn today more on:

• Sound, what is it?
• Your THREE ears
• Pitch and Loudness
• How you can locate the source of sounds

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Interesting link: Auditory System, by Joe Steinmetz and Glen Lee

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Great, yesterday we talked about the bilogical processes on vision and colour (perception). Today we have a look at the following subjects

• Spatial and temporal context of light
• Perception in 3 dimensions
• Trichromatic and Opponent Porcesses theory
• Colourblindness

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Interesting link: Nice colour theory pages

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Wow, I kept it under 15 minutes again! Today we start with the senses. Can you imagine that you lose one of your senses? I have a cousin who can not tast anymore. That would be awful I think!

Today we have a look at our vision. This is the first of a two part series. This first part dealts with the path light travels to reach the back of our brain where it can be interpreted and analysed. Here are the subject we discuss:

• The light thru the eye
• Vision problems

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Interesting link: Some eye situations

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Today an answer to the question we all have: How to get rid of that awful jet lag after a long flight

Today we continue to have a look at the biological basis of our behavior. Here are the subject we discuss:

• Endocrine system
• Glands
• Behaviour and Genetics

These sessions only get longer and longer. Today almost 20 minutes. Tomorrow we will have a shorter session, I (hope to) promise.

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This is the second part of our two part series on the brain.

• Cerebral Cortex
• Hemispheric Lateralisation
• Lobes
• Split Brain

I did not get any comments on the length of the session, so today we have a long session again (18 minutes).

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Interesting links:
Broca Aphasia
Wernicke Aphasia

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This is the first part of a two part series on the brain and the nervous system.

• Nervous System
• Study methods
• Brain stem
• Cerebellum, thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system

Again, we have more than 15 minutes in this podcast. Let me know if this is too long or not.

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Interesting link: History of MRI

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This time we discuss the neurons and how they work.

• Neurons - general information
• Myelin sheath
• Synaptical transmission
• Information transmission
• Neurotransmitters

The podcast of today is rather long I think (15 minutes). It is probably wise to also have a look at the mindmap created for this podcast. There are some overviews in them that can be interesting.

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Interesting link: Neurons

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This time we discuss the different (early) schools in psychology.

• Structuralism
• Functionalism
• Behaviorism
• Gestalt therapy
• Psychoanalysis

All of this is only warming up for the real work, so stay tuned and work with me on this (dry or boring) stuff.

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Interesting link: Freud Archive

The quick notes of today:

• Definitions and areas of interest
• Copernicus and Descartes
• EMPIRICISM
• Physicists
• Darwin
• Ebbinghaus

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Interesting links: Ebbinghaus