[Cosmic Queries] Our Brains on Film: Neurocinematics with Heather Berlin

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What does your brain do when watching movies? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the field of neurocinematics and the difference between fiction and reality with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk.
0:15.0	I'm Neil deGrafte, I'm senior personal astrophysicist.
0:18.0	Got Chuck Nice with me, Chuck Baby.
0:21.0	Hey Neil, what's happened?
0:22.0	All right, all right.
0:23.0	Today's going to be Cosmic Queries.
0:25.0	And you know what the subject is going to be?
0:26.0	Oh my, this is a good subject.
0:28.0	You're brain on movies.
0:30.0	Your brain on movies.
0:32.0	Okay, now I remember the commercials where my brain was in a skillet.
0:35.0	Oh, I remember that one.
0:36.0	Yeah, your brain on drugs.
0:38.0	And this is your brain on breakfast.
0:40.0	Chuck, how old are you?
0:42.0	That commercial was 1971 or something.
0:46.0	Oh, away.
0:48.0	No way.
0:49.0	I think that was the 90s.
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