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Oct 2022
2h 31m

Dr. Eddie Chang: The Science of Learning...

Scicomm Media
About this episode
My guest is Eddie Chang, MD, a neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering & Prostheses. We discuss the brain mechanisms underlying speech, language learning and comprehension, communicating human emotion with words and hand gestures, bilingu ... Show More
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