Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David Eagleman
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Oftentimes older people ask if doing crossword puzzles is good. It is good until you get good at it, then stop and do something you're not good at—constantly find the next real challenge. That's the key to plasticity. The brain is locked in silence and darkness, trying to make a model of the outside world. Constantly pushing and challenging it with things it doesn't understand keeps it changing.
Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast discussing science and science-based tools for everyday life. Andrew Huberman is a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Guest is Dr. David Eagleman, neuroscientist, best-selling author, and science public educator.
Discussion covers brain science features impacting everyday life, enabling better decisions and rewiring for effective learning. Start with neuroplasticity—brain's ability to change in response to experience or deliberate learning. Mechanisms for getting better at learning and unlearning skills/information. Memory formation, relationship between stress and time perception (traumatic events feel slow motion), usefulness for undoing traumatic memories. Neuroscience of cultural/political polarization, false memories, déjà vu, dreams and dream meaning.
David is an absolutely legendary science communicator... able to embed factual information about the brain into real life stories... true virtuoso of neuroscience and science education... will change the way you think about thinking and your own mind and... the way that you view the world.
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