Into the Mind: Broken Brains
Head injury, epilepsy, experimental surgery gone wrong—in this program, host Michael Mosley provides evidence that these medical misfortunes have helped break new ground in understanding how healthy brains work. Examples include HM, the victim of ...
Deception
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about work he's done that can be used to help determine if someone is being deceptive. Dr. Ekman adds that part of his work in this area has to do with understanding why people lie, why some lies fail and oth...
What Are Emotions?
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about the characteristics of emotions. He also discusses how emotions are triggered, noting that, "...emotions are triggered without our being able to witness (the) process or really influence it very much."
Into the Mind: Emotions
Where do emotions come from, and why do we experience them? Is there a connection between reason and emotion? In this program, host Michael Mosley uses vintage footage and his own willingness to be a test subject to review classic and sometimes dist...
Mechanical Love
Mechanical Love examines the contemporary interrelationship between robots and humans, explaining the differences between a "humanoid" (a robot in the shape of a human being), an "android" (a robot that looks and moves like a human) and a "geminoid"...