Jonah Lehrer appears in the following:
The Lowdown on High Self-Esteem
Friday, July 03, 2009
Stuart Smalley’s famous words of self love: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me" could be hazardous to your mental health. A new study out of the Univer...
Stochasticity
Monday, June 15, 2009
How stochasticity -- a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness -- drives our lives, and the patterns we see around us.
Journey to the Center of a Baby's Brain
Monday, May 25, 2009
New scientific research suggests that the mind of a baby is a humming, buzzing, supercharged learning machine, capable of taking in and processing enormous amounts of information. No...
Decisions, Decisions
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jonah Lehrer, editor at large for Seed Magazine, contributor to Radio Lab and the author of How We Decide, explains how humans make decisions using the latest insights from behavioral economics and neuroscience. What's the most rational or irrational decision you've ever made? What's your decision-making approach ...
Empire State Forecast
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The federal stimulus money is on its way to New York. Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) talks about how he’ll spend it. Plus, Jonah Lehrer on the intersection between behavioral economics and neuroscience; and DJ Kool Herc and the West Indian origins of hip hop.
The decider: How your brain makes up its mind
Monday, February 02, 2009
It seems like there are two kinds of people: the ones who agonize over every decision and the ones who go with their gut. There’s the guy on line at the coffee house who takes ten min...
The science behind keeping (and breaking) New Year's resolutions
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Gained five pounds when you wanted to lose ten? Started smoking again after swearing you wouldn't? Not eat vegetables at every meal? Forget to not watch television? Who hasn’t had a N...
The science of gift giving
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Feeling a little sheepish because you got your sister socks, and she got you a new purple iPod? Evolution can be blamed for the guilt — if not your poor taste in gifts. Jonah Lehrer, ...
Choice
Monday, November 17, 2008
We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to get to the bottom of what really steers our decisions.
Walking makes you smart
Thursday, November 13, 2008
"Just looking at a picture of nature was relaxing enough to actually produce some cognitive benefits." -- Jonah Lehrer
The "Aha!" Moment
Thursday, August 07, 2008
The very moment when a perfect solution arrives in the brain may now be boiled down to a series of synapses. New Yorker contributor Jonah Lehrer breaks down the science of insight.
Umami
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
The fifth taste, umami, is now at the forefront of modern cuisine. Gourmet magazine’s Ruth Reichl and Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, tell us more about what umami is and why it has such a powerful effect on taste.
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Body of War
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Phil Donahue has directed a new documentary about Tomas Young, who was paralyzed after serving in Iraq for just 5 days. Also: the history of the harpsichord. Find out how home cooks can move beyond just “following the recipe.” And Ruth Reichl and Jonah Lehrer on why the fifth taste, ...
Proust Got There First
Monday, December 24, 2007
In his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Jonah Lehrer writes about how novelists and other artists intuited knowledge about the brain that scientists are only now figuring out.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Proust Got There First
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
In his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Jonah Lehrer writes about how novelists and other artists intuited knowledge about the brain that scientists are only now figuring out.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Musical Language
Monday, September 24, 2007
We explore the line between music and language, and turn to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes feeling.
Memory and Forgetting
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat
Thursday, June 07, 2007
What is a memory? Science writer Jonah Lehrer tells us is it’s a physical thing in the brain… not some ephemeral flash. It’s a concrete thing made of matter. And NYU neuroscientist Joe LeDoux, who studies fear memories in rats, tells us how with a one shock, one tone, and ...
