Our Mind is Not a Blank Slate
Description
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie sits down with UC Santa Barbara anthropology professor John Toobyand Leda Cosmides, a professor of psychology, who co-founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology. They believe their approach to examining the information-processing mechanisms that have evolved in the brain can provide greater insights into human behavior and cognition. They talk about their ideas and their perspectives and how they differ from the traditional view of the mind as a blank slate. A Reason TV production.
Runtime
11 min 50 sec
Subjects
- Human anatomy (178)
- Biological control systems (31)
- Learning (178)
- Brain (487)
- Cognitive psychology (167)
- Psychology (828)
- Human biology (175)
- Memory (177)
- Central nervous system (68)
- Nervous System (30)
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