Ep100 "Why do brains love slow motion video?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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What does The Matrix tell us about the brain and time perception? And what does that have to do with champion bicyclists, hidden data, elementary particles, secret murderers, or time machines? Today’s episode is about slow motion: what’s going on in the brain, and why we are so mesmerized by it. Whether watching a sword battle, basketball dunk, or sprinters, we're pulled to slow motion like moths to flame... but have you ever wondered from a neuroscience perspective what that’s all about? Me too, and hence today’s 100th weekiversary episode.
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