All Pieces for Bishop Sand

 
How We Hurt Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Start Class
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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As a teacher, the first step to student learning is starting a lesson. This is an incredibly chaotic time for teachers! Hear the thinking behind th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 4
Improve Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Stop filling your head like a vessel and ignite your flame of learning! Hear what improves learning from a University of Columbia neuroscientist an...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 11:52
  • Purchases: 3
Test Stress
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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You’ve probably experienced test anxiety. Listen to what it’s like for teenagers to take a test with test anxiety. Then hear educators question whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Synaptic Pruning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
Learning Defined
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Listen to experts define learning and lead us through the types of knowledge to be gained in learning. Then hear the basic explanation of how neuro...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Cocktail Party Problem
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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You’re at a crowded cocktail party and you somehow hear someone talking to you. How does that happen? Your ears are taking in so much sound and som...

Bought by Radio Newark, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 3
Social Guide to Babbling
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Hear about how babies develop their babbling. It's not through imitation but something more... social. It's also very similar to a strategy songbir...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 15:25
  • Purchases: 1
Speech Dance
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Hear about new ideas in the neuroscience of communication where scientists are now considering multiple brains interacting at the same time.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Experience Shapes Perception
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Your experiences shape who you are as a person. But how do they shape our perceptual abilities? Listen to how our brains process auditory informati...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 2
Speech IS cHaNGe
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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It is easy to pick out human speech from background noise. But how can we do this given that all the parts of speech sound like all the other noise...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Engineering Gotham From Below
From: Bishop Sand
Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 5
Plasticity
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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What happens when visual information is sent to the hearing centers in the brain? Hear about this interesting experiment and more generally, why th...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
Translate Sound to the Brain
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
SHAZAM!
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Avery Wang helped found the app, Shazam. This app is now part of our cultural consciousness as a flagship app for all smartphones because it is so ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Musical Brain Tease
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Animal Orchestra Is Quieting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Animals communicate with each other like instruments in an orchestra. This natural soundscape is now quieting which can have an effect on humans as...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
Sound is...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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What is sound? We'll define it physically and through our experience. Interesting descriptions abound as we learn why a piano sound is different th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 2
Simple Soup
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Chef Gift gives us a simple soup. Strangely, it's similar to a primordial soup.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2

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