How Our Brains Grasp Faces
From the earliest months of life, we rely on faces to help us navigate the world. They tell us who’s safe, who’s familiar, and whether they’re paying attention to us. But do our responses to faces dev...
7 Elo 202530min
Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration
Why do familiar experiences sometimes feel like they happened longer ago than they actually did? In this episode of Under the Cortex, host Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Baum speaks with Brynn Sherman from th...
10 Heinä 202515min
Two Maps in the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
How does your brain keep track of the people in your life—not just who they are, but where they are in relation to you and to each other? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Ba...
26 Kesä 202529min
Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation with Arturo Hernandez
How do the roles of researcher and editor inform each other? What can this intersection tell us about the future of psychological science? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Arturo Hernandez, Pro...
12 Kesä 202527min
Real-Time Research: How the Experience Sampling Method Is Changing Psychology
How do you design a study that captures human experience as it unfolds in real time? In this episode, Under the Cortex explores the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a powerful approach for studying p...
29 Touko 202525min
Why Do Emotions Hijack Our Decisions? The Neuroscience of Impulsivity
Why do some people struggle to control their actions when emotions run high? What happens in the brain when impulsive decisions take over? Why do some brains lose control under high arousal, while oth...
15 Touko 202528min
Beyond Words: Why TalkBank is Crucial for Spoken Language Research
Most linguistic datasets focus on written text, but what about the way we actually speak? TalkBank, the world’s largest open-access repository of spoken language, is helping researchers understand eve...
1 Touko 202527min
