A Neuroscientist Explains: where perception ends and hallucination begins - podcast

When it comes to perceiving the world around us, how much of it is due to ‘bottom-up’ sensory data and how much comes from the ‘top-down’ predictions we make? Most importantly; how can the delicate dance between the two lead to hallucinations?Subscribe and review oniTunes andAcast, and join the discussion onFacebook andTwitterA Neuroscientist Explains is back for its second season. In each episode,Dr Daniel Glaser and producerMax Sanderson revisit a column from Daniel ’s hugely successfulweekly column in the Observer Magazine and explore the neuroscience within it. One subject, one interview and many, many interesting questions.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Daniel Glaser and produced by Max Sanderson Tags: Science Neuroscience Mental health Psychology Consciousness Human biology Source Type: news