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

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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!

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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)

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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.

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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. Robert Sapolsky on Stress and Memory: Forget It! (Webcast)

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1:38:48

Can stress make you forget? Dr. Robert Sapolsky presents an overview of the disruptive effects of stress on memory and brain aging. Dr. Sapolsky, Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University, is a MacArthur Fellow and author of numerous articles and books.

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Date: November 18, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: stress memories, cell, organism, brain, chemical, stress and memories, impact of stress, stress management, relaxation, memory training, memory stress, homeostatic balance

Real: 16K

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

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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.

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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: Dr. Arthur Shimamura: Memory & Alzheimer's Disease (Webcast)

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1:08:44

U.C. Berkeley Professor of Psychology Dr. Arthur Shimamura will discuss what we know about the effects of aging on human memory and its relation to Alzheimer's Disease. Find out how the brain stores and retrieves information, and learn new techniques that may help improve your memory.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 4, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: memory, arthur shimamura, aging, brain, alzheimer's disease

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West Coast Live: West Coast Live: October 10, 1998 (Webcast)

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1:58:50

This episode of Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live radio show explores the places where science and entertainment intersect. In this broadcast: Singer-songwriter John Gorka; Bert Grant, founder of Grant's Brewery; a view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble; author of "Fisherman's Son" Michael Koepf.

Project: Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live | Browse All

Date: October 10, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science

Keywords: john gorka, folk music, memory exhibition description, art and science, radio

Real: 34K

West Coast Live: West Coast Live: October 3, 1998 (Webcast)

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1:59:04

This episode of Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live radio show explores the places where science and entertainment intersect. In this broadcast: Ethan Canin, author of "For Kings and Planets"; Exploratorium artist Brenda Hutchinson; Michael Dibdin, author of the Aurelio Zen mysteries; Cajun accordion dynamo Geno Delafose; singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes; radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.

Project: Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live | Browse All

Date: October 3, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science

Keywords: ethan canin, for kings and planets, sound artist, improvisational theatre, sonic portraits,

Real: 16K

Memory: Panorama of Exhibition (Clip)

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This 360° QTVR panorama was shot from the entrance area of the Exploratorium's Memory exhibition. It opens with a view of the Brain exhibit, in which sheep's brain dissections were performed several times each day.

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Date: October 3, 1998
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: exhibits, memory

QuickTime: 56K

La Nina Summit: Symmetry (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:55:23

Exploratorium Senior Scientist Mary Miller presents audio dispatches from the "Review of the Causes and Consequences of Cold Events: A La Nina Summit" held in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop was presented by The United Nations University, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the United Nations Environment Program.

Project: La Nina Summit | Browse All

Date: July 16, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: ncar, nino, nina, el nino, la nina, ni, sst, ssts, equatorial pacific, enso, tao, pmel, upwelling, cold phase, warm phase, sea surface temperature, southern oscillation, extreme weather, climate impacts, severe weather; atmosphere, pacific ocean, noaa, cold eve

Real: 16K

La Nina Summit: Forecasting (Webcast)

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1:12:19

Exploratorium Senior Science Writer Mary Miller presents audio dispatches and selected lectures from the "Review of the Causes and Consequences of Cold Events: A La Nia Summit" held in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop was presented by The United Nations University, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the United Nations Environement Program.

Project: La Nina Summit | Browse All

Date: July 16, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: ncar, nino, nina, el nino, la nina, ni, sst, ssts, equatorial pacific, enso, tao, pmel, upwelling, cold phase, warm phase, sea surface temperature, southern oscillation, extreme weather, climate impacts, severe weather; atmosphere, pacific ocean, noaa, cold eve

Real: 16K


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