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New! TEDTalks: Joshua Foer—Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do
Item# 52985
© 2012
21 Min.
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There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. In this TEDTalk, Joshua Foer describes the technique—called the...
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New! TEDTalks: Scott Fraser—Why Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong
Item# 53033
© 2012
21 Min.
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Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser studies how humans remember crimes—and bear witness to them. In this powerful TEDTalk, which focuses on a deadly shooting at sunset, he suggests that even close-up e...
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Out of Control: The Power of the Unconscious Mind
Item# 52480
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-311-2
Research in neuroscience shows that the role played by the conscious mind is much smaller than was previously thought, which raises the question: Are we in control of our mind, or is the mind in contr...
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Just Trial and Error: Conversations on Consciousness
Item# 52316
© 2012
63 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-226-9
An exhibition about consciousness and the human brain at University College London inspired the making of Just Trial and Error, in which cognitive neuroscientist Brian Butterworth, perceptual neurosci...
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New to Our Collection! IQ: A History of Deceit
Item# 52818
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-757-8
What we now call an IQ test was originally developed by Alfred Binet at the start of the 20th century as a way to measure developmental delays in schoolchildren. But with the eugenics craze at its p...
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New to Our Collection! TEDTalks: Daniel Goldstein—The Battle Between Your Present and Future Self
Item# 52928
© 2011
16 Min.
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Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) In this TEDTalk, Daniel Goldstein discusses how he makes tools to help...
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New to Our Collection! Automatic Brain: How the Unconscious Shapes Our Lives
Item# 51892
© 2011
104 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-545-1
This two-part series looks at how unconscious processes in the amygdala and hippocampus dictate decisions to the conscious brain about everything from choosing a breakfast cereal to the minute series...
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New to Our Collection! The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain
Item# 51893
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-546-8
“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 progr...
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New to Our Collection! The Power of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain
Item# 51894
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-547-5
When Chesley Sullenberger’s plane became disabled over New York City, his quick thinking saved the lives of all those aboard. Neil Armstrong relied on the same combination of split-second decision mak...
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Eye Openers Are Mind Openers: Attention Exercises for the Classroom
Item# 50567
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-245-0
Stress and distractions are major obstacles to learning at any class level. For the elementary classroom, specialized exercises called Eye Openers have been shown to dramatically improve focus and awa...
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