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Driven: I Remember As I Write (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:20

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is a poet who collects inspiration from the everyday--walking in the city, looking at people, listening to language--as well as from her imagination and memory. In this show we explore her process and product.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: July 15, 2011
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: inspiration, poetry, art, language. tsering wangmo dhompa, tibet, poem

Origins: Astrobiology: Talking with ET: The Language and Timescales of Interstellar Communication (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:27:33

What if we did contact another intelligent life form in the universe? What should we say? What traits best represent our humanity? Douglas Vakoch, the SETI Institute’s Director of Interstellar Message Composition, is working with scientists, artists, linguists, composers, and others to imagine how to speak for our planet.

Project: Origins: Astrobiology: The Search for Life | Browse All

Date: November 22, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: douglas vakoch, seti, extraterrestrials, scientists, artists, linguists, composers, communication, language, communicate

Real: 225K 1M

Windows Media: 659K

Memory: Dr. Jonathan Schooler -- Words Get in the Way: A Tasteful Exploration (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:42:45

Can a question influence its answer? Discover the power of verbal overshadowing--ways in which words enhance or distract from different sensory memories. Dr. Schooler, Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, will arrange a variety of sense-memory experiments, including wine-tasting and jellybean-tasting!

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: December 6, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, understa

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Dr. Jonathan Schooler on Recovered Memory (Webcast)

Running Time:
2:02:21

What do you really remember? Dr. Jonathan Schooler and Dr. Elizabeth Loftus will discuss the highly controversial area of recovered memories. Dr. Schooler is Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Dr. Loftus is Professor Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: December 2, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, underst

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Alison Gopnik: How Children Remember (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:48:57

Does your child remember the same things you do? Not necessarily. Children are as good or better than adults at remembering events, but have difficulty remembering how, when, and why they learn things. This has implications for issues from eyewitness testimony to recovered memories. Alison Gopnik is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 11, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: cognition, language development, children's theories of mind, memory in children, child development, memory in babies, human development, autobiographical memory, emotional memory

Real: 16K

Memory: Lewis Hyde: Remembering and Forgetting (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:56:12

Osher Fellow Lewis Hyde speaks about images and ideas of forgetting in myth and story. Mr. Hyde is a MacArthur Fellow and author of Trickster Makes This World and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: June 17, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: nature of imagination, creativity, moral meaning from fairy tales, cultural threads, folklore, forgetting,

Real: 40K


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