logo
episode-header-image
Dec 2024
20m 35s

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' ...

QUANTA MAGAZINE
About this episode
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Up next
Nov 18
Why Are Waves So Hard to Grasp?
<p>At first glance, studying the math of waves seems like it should be smooth sailing. But the equations that describe even the gentlest rolling waves are a mathematical nightmare to solve. On this week’s episode, host Samir Patel speaks with math staff writer Joseph Howlett why ... Show More
27m 29s
Nov 11
Sleep Is Not All or Nothing
<p>Salvador Dalí, Thomas Edison and Edgar Allan Poe all took inspiration from the state between sleep and waking life. On this week’s episode, host Samir Patel speaks with biology staff writer Yasemin Saplakoglu about how brain systems dictate the strange transitions into and out ... Show More
27m 21s
Nov 6
Audio Edition: A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
<p>A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain “nightmare scenarios.” A new proof has removed that obstacle.</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-proof-smooths-out-the-math-of-melting ... Show More
13m 17s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 12
Unpacking the Brain’s Role in Inventing Your Perception
Human brains don’t just perceive reality—they invent it. In this episode of Science Quickly, cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Yon speaks with host Rachel Feltman about how perception is an active process of prediction in which the brain constructs theories about the world that can ... Show More
15m 37s
Dec 2024
The Life Scientific - Peter Goadsby
Throbbing head, nausea, dizziness, disturbed vision – just some of the disabling symptoms that can strike during a migraine attack. This neurological condition is far more common than you might think, affecting more people than diabetes, epilepsy and asthma combined.While medicat ... Show More
26m 27s
Mar 2025
Where do our early childhood memories go?
It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Why can’t we remember our early childhood experiences? Freud called the phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have wondered whether it’s a result of failure to create memories or just a failure to retrieve th ... Show More
18m 37s
Feb 2023
Focus - When Our Senses Intermingle
How can some people taste sounds? What’s happening in the brain of those who feel other’s sensations as their own? And why might we have evolved some of these extraordinary abilities in the first place? In this focus episode of How We’re Wired, join producer Dr Eva Higginbotham a ... Show More
32m 25s
Nov 2024
Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While recent work in neuroscience frequently tries to identify underlying brain dysfunction ... Show More
1h 25m
Sep 1
If You've Ever Felt A Ghost In The Room, Science Explains Why | Dr. Baland Jalal
<p><a href="https://lewishowes.com/ticket" target="_blank">My life-changing annual event, The Summit of Greatness, is happening September 12 & 13, 2025. Get your ticket today!</a></p><p>Check out the full episode: <a href="http://greatness.lnk.to/1815" target="_blank">greatness.l ... Show More
7m 9s
Mar 2022
Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain
While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring. 
7m 43s
Nov 2024
The Science of Mind Reading: Unlocking the Secrets of Human Thought
The Science of Mind Reading: Unlocking the Secrets of Human ThoughtJoin us in this fascinating episode of The Science of Mind Reading, where we delve into the intriguing world of understanding human thoughts and emotions. Can we read minds, or is it just an illusion? In this epis ... Show More
12m 48s
May 2025
Pourquoi oubliez-vous ce que vous deviez faire en franchissant une porte ?
Vous entrez dans une pièce, puis… trou noir. Vous restez planté là, incapable de vous rappeler ce que vous étiez venu y chercher. Cette expérience troublante a un nom : le "doorway effect", ou effet de la porte. Ce phénomène cognitif décrit la tendance de notre cerveau à oublier ... Show More
3m 2s