Robotics researcher Ruth Aylett explains why some people fear robots. Plus: how a sonata can reduce epilepsy seizures.

More from Ruth Aylett, professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh:

Pick up "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/living-robots
Follow @ruthaylett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruthaylett
University website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics: https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/academics/ruth-aylett

Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major may be able to treat refractory focal epilepsy by reducing seizures... somehow by Grant Currin

Berezow, A. (2021, October 4). How Mozart’s music treats epilepsy. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/health/mozart-k448-effect-music-treats-epilepsy/
Quon, R. J., Casey, M. A., Camp, E. J., Meisenhelter, S., Steimel, S. A., Song, Y., Testorf, M. E., Leslie, G. A., Bujarski, K. A., Ettinger, A. B., & Jobst, B. C. (2021). Musical components important for the Mozart K448 effect in epilepsy. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95922-7
AFP. (2021). One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/listening-to-mozart-somehow-helped-people-with-epilepsy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencealert-latestnews+%28ScienceAlert-Latest%29

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Robotics researcher Ruth Aylett explains why some people fear robots. Plus: how a sonata can reduce epilepsy seizures.

More from Ruth Aylett, professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh:

Pick up "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/living-robots
Follow @ruthaylett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruthaylett
University website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics: https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/academics/ruth-aylett

Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major may be able to treat refractory focal epilepsy by reducing seizures... somehow by Grant Currin

Berezow, A. (2021, October 4). How Mozart’s music treats epilepsy. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/health/mozart-k448-effect-music-treats-epilepsy/
Quon, R. J., Casey, M. A., Camp, E. J., Meisenhelter, S., Steimel, S. A., Song, Y., Testorf, M. E., Leslie, G. A., Bujarski, K. A., Ettinger, A. B., & Jobst, B. C. (2021). Musical components important for the Mozart K448 effect in epilepsy. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95922-7
AFP. (2021). One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/listening-to-mozart-somehow-helped-people-with-epilepsy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencealert-latestnews+%28ScienceAlert-Latest%29

Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/irrational-fear-of-robots-mozarts-epilepsy-reducing-sonata

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