Memory

Unintentional blindness | Health Check

An explanation of how unintentional blindness occurs, for example with the case of the invisible gorilla.

2: Becoming Social | Babies: Their Wonderful World

Episode two looks at why we are born to respond to faces, what makes babies laugh and how we learn to empathise with others.

3: Who Is in Control? | The Brain with David Eagleman

David explores how almost every action we take, every decision we make, every belief that we hold is driven by parts of...

4: How Do I Decide? | The Brain with David Eagleman

This episode takes a journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made.

2: What Makes Me? | The Brain with David Eagleman

David explores how the brain conjures up the world we take for granted. This episode shows how the brain gives rise to thou...

A Different Brain | Louis Theroux

Louis takes a look at the issues that some of the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injur...

Using Favourite Sporting Memories Therapeutically | Health Check

Using sporting memories therapeutically; Why oxytocin might help treat anorexia; Therapists' dreams about th...

My Brain: After the Rupture

The incredible story of broadcaster, journalist, musician and author Clemency Burton-Hill's recovery following a devastating brain haemorrhage in...

Episode 3 | Eyewitness

Having many witnesses to a crime helps the police piece together the facts. But what happens when the only witness is also the victim?

Episode 2 | Eyewitness

When bystanders get caught up in a bungled armed robbery and one of them is kidnapped, what effect do weapons and fear have on their memories?

Eyewitness

In an experiment with the Greater Manchester Police, the problem of eyewitness recollection is dramatically brought into focus.

Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony | Mind Changers

Claudia Hammond meets Elizabeth Loftus, the psychologist whose research into eye witness testimony and the fallibi...

Loftus' reconstructive memory experiment | Mind Changers

Professor Elizabeth Loftus discusses her study about leading questions and memory.

Visual inattention | The Human Senses

Watch in real time an experiment showing how we don't register all of the visual information that we receive through our eyes.

The Knowledge | Modern Times

Follow trainee taxi drivers as they undergo one of the most difficult memory tests, The Knowledge.

3: Becoming Independent | Babies: Their Wonderful World

Episode three reveals how crawling transforms our understanding of the world, when our memory first develops and how ...

Vision | The Human Senses

Why are humans so good at spotting some things while at other times, cannot see what's right in front of them?

Streetwise | Modern Times

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.