Posted on · Episode: 2487 John von Neumann’s ideas on the similarities and differences of computers and brains. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about brains, computers and John von Neumann.
Posted on · “Asking which species is smarter is like asking if a hammer is a better tool than a screwdriver,” said Brian Hare, the founder and director of Duke University’s Canine Cognition Center
Posted on · A Valentine's music video from Skunk Bear explores the ways your brain and body change when you fall in love — and change again as love deepens and matures
Posted on · Researchers say it takes a lot of brainpower to stop an action, once it's underway. A study found that when people have to change a planned movement, 11 different brain areas have to get involved
Posted on · Cows don’t write symphonies. Dogs don’t build rockets to the moon. But humans have. What’s makes us so capable of changing the world around us?
Posted on · Scientists have found an underlying reason why it's dangerous to drive when you're sleepy. Brain recordings show cells involved in perception fire more slowly in somebody who has been up all night
Posted on · On this edition of Houston Matters, we discuss the latest ruling on new laws concerning the handling of fetal remains, and we interview Dr. Huda Zoghbi about her award-winning work at the Baylor College of Medicine. Also, we cover the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the week's news, and indie rock group Islands performs in our studio.
Posted on · Episode: 3053 Music and the Brain Today, this is your brain on music.
Posted on · The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty holds its annual conference this weekend in Houston. Harris County has been described in the past as the death penalty capital of the world because so many death sentences were once handed down here, but last year there were only two. On this edition of Houston Matters, […]
Posted on · The theory that the brain responds positively to art is not new to science. But researcher Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal at the University of Houston is using a different approach to test that belief. News 88.7 arts and culture reporter Amy Bishop gives us a closer look at the study. (Above: News 88.7’s Amy Bishop has her […]
Posted on · Growing concern about concussions has led to new rules in various sports, and a new movie starring Will Smith as a crusading doctor. But concussions are not easy injuries to treat – or even diagnose. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, has developed an iPad app called “BrainCheck.” It uses research-backed […]
Posted on · We talk with author and former Newsweek and The Daily Beast staff writer Casey Schwartz about connections between neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. She’s here in Houston this week to discuss those connections, and her new book In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis.
Posted on · Houston-based neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman is the host of a new PBS series called The Brain. The first of six hour-long episodes premieres tonight (Oct. 14, 2015) at 9 on TV 8. Eagleman directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine.
Posted on · On this edition of Houston Matters, conversations about neuroscience: First, we talk with Houston-based neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, the host of a new PBS series called The Brain. The first of six hour-long episodes premieres tonight (10/14) at 9 on TV 8. Eagleman directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine. Then, we […]
Posted on · We often hear about the low cost of living in Texas and Houston. But is it really true? The answer, not surprising, is: it depends. Where in Greater Houston you live factors in tremendously. Some areas are seeing unprecedented demand for places to live – and that drives up prices in those areas, not just […]