Episode 57 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with neuropsychologist Dr. Chris Frith, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World. Our brain processes information about the world outside us (via our senses) in the same way that it processes information from within our bodies and from our own mental world. In this interview Dr. Frith and I explore the implications from recent discoveries about how our brain generates our mental world.
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- Chris Frith, PhD: University College London Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging
- Making Up the Mind: book website
- Necker cube: a visual illusion that shows that some visual processing can not be changed by top-down feedback
- PubMed: a public service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Selected References:*
Bayes, T (1763). An essay toward solving a problem in the doctrine of chance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 53, 470-418.
Blakemore, SJ, Wolpert DM, and Frith, CD (1990) Central Cancellation of self produced tickle sensation. Nature Neuroscience, 1(7), 635-640.
Botvinick, M and Cohen, J (1998) Rubber hands “feel” touch that the eyes see. Nature, 391(6669), 756.
Kilner, JM, Paulignan, Y, and Blakemore, SJ, (2003) An interference effect of observed biological movement on action. Current Biology, 13(6), 522-525.
Rizzolatti, G and Craighero, L (2004). The mirror-neuron system. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27, 169-192.
Wicker, B, Keysers, C, Plaily,J, Royet, JP, Galese, V, and Rizzolatti, G (2003). Both of us disgusted My insula: The common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust. Neuron. 40(3), 655-664.
Wegner, D (2003). The Illusion of Conscious Will, MIT Press.
Wegner, DM, Fuller, VA and Sparrow, B. (2003) Clever hands: Uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication. Journal of Personal Social Psychology, 85(1), 5-19.
*These references are from Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith.
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Loved his book – and the interview was awesome. I’m going to put a link to this interview on my swedish website about mentalization. Keep up the good work!
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