Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Videos, Slides, Films
The Magic of the Unconscious : Automatic Brain
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
The brain decides things before we can consciously think about it, says Allan Snyder, director of the University of Sydney's Centre for the Mind. "Decisions are almost dictated to us." In this prog...
The brain decides things before we can consciously think about it, says Allan Snyder, director of the University of Sydney's Centre for the Mind. "Decisions are almost dictated to us." In this program neuroscientists join Las Vegas magicians to explain-and vividly demonstrate-the interplay of unconscious promptings with conscious thought. Delving into the physiological basis of cognition, Snyder and other experts discuss snap judgments, facial recognition, and love at first sight. The video features segments that allow viewers to test their attentiveness with the shell game and the famous "invisible gorilla" experiment.
Details
- Creator
- Electric Sky (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c2011
- Series
- Physical Details
-
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn844439563
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on March 13, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Automatic Brain (2:24) -- Electrochemical Signals Create Perceived Reality (2:24) -- Illusion of the Mind (2:32) -- Brain Area Functions (1:32) -- Creating Illusion Through Diversion (2:51) -- The Marshmallow Test (5:10) -- Delay of Consciousness (4:00) -- Blinded by Expectation (3:12) -- The Gorilla Test (2:38) -- Present Based Brain System (2:58) -- Distracting the Brain's Gatekeeper (4:17) -- Experience Based Assumptions (2:22) -- Meaningful Facial Expressions (3:41) -- Merging Conscious and Subconscious (4:01) -- McGurk Effect: Perceptual Phenomenon (2:26) -- The Brain Falling In Love (3:52) -- Credits: The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain (1:10)