Watch in real time an experiment showing how we don't register all of the visual information that we receive through our eyes.
This film looks at the tough training regime undertaken by black cab drivers as they prepare for one of the hardest examinations they will ever take.
A brief introduction to Freud's work and the role of the unconscious mind in mental health.
These split brain patients showed Sperry that each hemisphere of the brain has a different role to play and a separate con...
Professor Casey explains her research into delayed gratification and the impact this has on behaviour.
An introduction to the Marshmallow study and what this shows about delayed gratification.
Follow trainee taxi drivers as they undergo one of the most difficult memory tests, The Knowledge.
The interplay between genetics and the environment, do we truly have free will over our behaviour?
When we view an object or scene, we don't take a mental photograph. Instead, our brain is choosing to focus attention on a f...
Professor Elizabeth Loftus summarises her famous study about leading questions and distorting memory.
Why are humans so good at spotting some things while at other times, cannot see what's right in front of them?
Jonathan Miller demonstrates how, by observing the mad crowded together in large asylums, ''experts'' concluded the causes of madness were to be foun...
Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...
Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our min...
Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.
This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.
This episode takes a journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made.
David explores how almost every action we take, every decision we make, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of...
David explores how the brain conjures up the world we take for granted. This episode shows how the brain gives rise to thou...
David takes us on a journey that explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to it, conj...
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