The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Bruce Hood: Meet Your Brain
Experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood delivers three lectures about the brain
Where to Watch The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures • Bruce Hood: Meet Your Brain
3 Episodes
- What's in Your Head?
E1What's in Your Head?Why does your brain look like a giant walnut, how does it fit in enough wiring to stretch four times around the equator and why can a magnet on your head stop you in mid-sentence? In the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, Professor Bruce Hood gets inside your head to explore how your brain works. He measures the brain's nerve cells in action, reads someone's mind from 100 miles away and reveals how the brain ultimately creates its own version of reality. - Who's in Charge Here?
E2Who's in Charge Here?Your brain is constantly being bombarded with information, so how does it decide what to trust and what to ignore, without you even being aware? Professor Bruce Hood leads us through the second of this year's Christmas Lectures - testing the limits of our memory, finding out how we learn, how our brain takes shortcuts and why multi-tasking can be dangerous. Bruce will make you say the wrong thing and fail to see what's right in front of you. Can you really believe your eyes? Possibly not. - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
E3Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?Have you ever seen a face in a piece of burnt toast, or given your car a name? Why do you feel pain when someone else is hurt? Why are people so obsessed with other people? In the last of this year's Christmas Lectures, Professor Bruce Hood investigates how our brains are built to read other people's minds. With a little help from a baby, a robot and a magician, Bruce uncovers what makes us truly human.