What am I? Challenge your perception of reality.

26/03/2021

Neuroscience? Check! Brain? Check! Perceptions? Check! Consensus? Nope.

In this episode of What am I?, I talked to neuroscientist Dr. Pascal Wallisch about his research on our difference in perceptions and why we disagree on what we see or hear.
https://youtu.be/BviBVhF0fR8

You are right, and everyone else is wrong. Okay, maybe not everyone else but a lot of people.No matter what subject that is, we tend to think we are right mo...

14/03/2021

Excerpt from What am I? podcast, episode 3: Agree to disagree. Are cognitive biases that bad?

14/03/2021

You are right, and everyone else is wrong. Okay, maybe not everyone else but a lot of people.
No matter what subject that is, we tend to think we are right most of the time.
After all, being right is soothing, while being wrong is a threat to our status.

But, if you are not wrong, how can you learn? How can you avoid new mistakes if there aren't any? How can you improve your behavior?

In this episode, Dr. Pascal Wallisch and I discuss why using your perceptions as a baseline for understanding your behaviors is not actually reliable.
If that is the case, can you even trust your perceptions to determine how other people's behaviors should be?

Dr. Wallisch studied "The Dress" and the "Laurel-Yanny" phenomena, which took over the internet a few years ago. He also helps us see that cognitive biases, although sometimes portrayed negatively, are just a natural way to help us survive and thrive in the world we live in.

https://episodes.whatami.show/2021/03/14/ep-3-in-conversation-with-dr-pascal-wallisch-agree-to-disagree/

You are right, and everyone else is wrong. Okay, maybe not everyone else but a lot of people.No matter what subject that is, we tend to think we are right most of the time.After all, being right is…

10/01/2021

"Illusions are the red herring. So why do we study them?"

Learn more from our interview with Dr. Rebecca Hirst.

“Illusions are the red herring. So why do we study them?👀 I chatted with the about why we care and what we're doing Full ep. here 👂👉https://t.co/a6siNFnIPI https://t.co/UpQ8V7rEmH”

02/01/2021

Hearing is a two-step process. We first capture sound waves but then our brains combine that information with data from other senses and our prior experiences.
In the process of integrating information, our brains may make use of illusions in order to make sense of things.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rebecca Hirst, who is an expert on illusions and perceptions.
One of her main studies focuses on the Sound Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI) and how that affects our perceptions as we age.

Listen to the episode here:
https://episodes.whatami.show/2021/01/01/ep-2-in-conversation-with-dr-rebecca-hirst-what-you-see-is-what-you-hear/



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Do you hear what I hear? Hearing is a two-step process. We first capture sound waves but then our brains combine that information with data from other senses and our prior experiences. In the proce…

31/12/2020

Have you heard of Lady Mondegreen?
In 1954, the American writer Sylvia Wright wrote about the times her mother would read to her an old poetry book.
In one of her favorite poems, she would hear her mother saying "They have slain the Earl Amurray, and Lady Mondegreen." However, the actual words were "They have slain the Earl of Murray, and have laid him on the green."
She then coined the term "mondegreen" which we still use today to describe a mishearing - also called an oronym.
If you have ever misheard the lyrics of a song, you know what that means.

Here is my own example of a mondegreen.
In the song Blank Space, Taylor Swift sings "got a long list of ex-lovers."
When I first listened to it, I heard "got lonely Starbucks lovers." Since then, I cannot hear anything else!

Hear it yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg&t=74

What about you?
What are your mondegreens?

24/11/2020

Are you fascinated by optical illusions?
Check out this one by the Japanese artist on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1329610899976437765?s=09

The stairs and the jumping guys - the "super illusion brothers" - are not moving; they are simply changing colors.

What other illusions have caught your attention?

03/11/2020

Excerpt from "Deep-dive into Episode 1: Am I anxious?"

Listen to the full conversation here: https://episodes.whatami.show/2020/11/03/deep-dive-into-episode-1-am-i-anxious/

03/11/2020

Listen to the first episode of our Deep-dive series, recapping our conversation with Dr. Nii Addy
https://episodes.whatami.show/2020/11/03/deep-dive-into-episode-1-am-i-anxious/

Thiago and Katie recap and review topics covered in “Ep. 1 – In conversation with Dr. Nii Addy: Am I anxious?” In this deep-dive episode, Katie brings up interesting facts she lea…

26/09/2020

What is your favorite brain area, and why?

Mine is the prefrontal cortex (PFC) because it helps me decide what to write on this post.
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What's yours?

21/09/2020

Which introductory books would you recommend to someone interested in Neuroscience or curious about how the brain works?
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17/09/2020

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We are starting a new series called "Episode Deep-dive."
In these series, Thiago and Katie will chat about a previous interview, do a recap, and review topics covered in the episode.

"Deep-dive into Episode 1: Am I anxious?" will be our first one, and it's scheduled to be released next week.

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15/09/2020

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11/09/2020

What is the difference between addiction to social media and the addiction to drugs?

Ep. 1 – In conversation with Dr. Nii Addy: Am I anxious?

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10/09/2020

Are you anxious? In our first episode of "What am I?" we talk to Dr. Nii Addy, a neuroscientist from the Yale School of Medicine who studies what happens to our brains when we suffer from anxiety, depression, and addiction.

Listen to the episode here:
https://episodes.whatami.show/2020/09/09/ep-1-in-conversation-with-dr-nii-addy-am-i-anxious/



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15/06/2020

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Challenging your perception of reality

15/06/2020

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Challenge your perception of reality