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Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Sep 2, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Did It Work Out Differently for You?
02:27 • 3min
3
The Wild Horses Are There on the Outer Banks of North Carolina?
05:43 • 2min
4
A Duke Isat Affair?
07:42 • 2min
5
How Do We See Things?
09:36 • 4min
6
What Is Thought Kepler Was?
13:34 • 2min
7
Using a Different Centre of Frame of Reference in Astronomy
15:05 • 4min
8
How Does the Brain Do That?
19:31 • 2min
9
The Lip Reading Cues, Is It Really Important?
21:12 • 2min
10
A Neuron in Your Arm?
23:33 • 2min
11
Is That a Running Joke in Neural Science?
26:00 • 3min
12
Do We Localize Smell?
29:04 • 2min
13
The Smells and Dogs and Smiles in Humans?
31:22 • 5min
14
Is There a One to One Functional Map Between the Neurons and What They're Doing?
36:33 • 2min
15
The Importance of Thinking About How You Can Build Something
38:14 • 4min
16
The Hippocampus Is Critically Important for Memory
42:03 • 3min
17
Do You Have a Rat in a New Environment?
45:01 • 3min
18
The Memory and Location Link in the Hippocampus
47:52 • 2min
19
The Link Between Memory and Space
50:05 • 2min
20
I'm an Amputy and I Feel Pantom Pain
52:06 • 2min
21
Is There a Plasticity in Hearing Loss?
53:52 • 4min
22
A Memory, a Memory of Space and Location
57:41 • 3min
23
Is There a Memory Palace?
01:00:59 • 2min
24
The Inter Structure of the Brain
01:02:50 • 3min
25
Is There a Pattern to the Metaphors We Use in Language?
01:06:03 • 2min
26
A, Ra, We Shall Cao With Us Wherever We Go.
01:07:43 • 2min
27
Is There a Correlation Between Sensory and Motor Input?
01:10:08 • 3min
28
Detection of Neuronal Activity Patterns in Human Subjects
01:13:09 • 2min
29
Generic Epilepsy - Is There a Contrast?
01:14:51 • 3min