Five years ago, I had the honour of being selected to present the Royal Institution Lectures , “Meet Your Brain,” that were broadcast first on BBC4 and then again later on BBC2– a rare double billing that I am proud of. I gave three lectures – “What’s inside your heads?”, “Who’s in charge here anyway?”, and “Are you […]
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Earlier this term, Mike Griffin shared details of the London Brain Project in his blog , which has some excellent ideas for teaching biological and cognitive approaches. But how about getting your students to actually have first-hand experience of having their brains studied? The Hive Mind Project, headed up by Rita Carter, a science writer, lecturer and […]
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I came across the excellent ‘London Brain Project’ as I was surfing the web for inspiration for teaching psychology. “We helped children get to know their own brain, in all it’s beauty and gory, during our ‘Meet your brain!’ Art-Science workshops at the Imagination Lab London, and as part of the London Science Festival 2014. Many thanks to […]
Read morePsychologists have known for many years that memories are primarily stored in the cerebral cortex of the brain, and that a ‘control centre’ buried deep in the brain, is involved in both creating memories and retrieving them from their store in the cerebral cortex: made up of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex. In November […]
Read moreAccording to palaeontologists (scientists who study fossils), over the last 20,000 years the average volume has been decreasing – possibly losing as much as 150cc (a chunk the size of a tennis ball). One possible explanation is related to the fact that brain size is correlated with body size. Humans have become smaller over the […]
Read moreHumans have exceptionally large brains; taking body size into account the human brain is seven times larger than those of other mammals. It has long been assumed that the benefit of this large brain is high intelligence A Brazilian, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, has recently challenged this. There are a number of small brained animals who are […]
Read moreThe ideal kitchen accessory for all culinary psychologists….
Read moreA slice of human cerebrum freezes in dry ice, embedded in a stabilizing coat of blue carboxymethylcellulose. (Creating An Atlas Of The Human Mind)
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