Horror on the Brain - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 9/18/25
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
George Noory and neuroscientist Austin Lim explore his research into the impact of horror and science fiction movies on the human brain, why we enjoy being scared by movies since we face few threats in daily life, and if audiences react differently to modern horror movies than the classics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.4 | George Norrie with you. |
| 0:12.4 | We've got a great couple hours coming up for you. |
| 0:15.0 | Austin Lim, PhD, is a University of Chicago-trained neuroscientists |
| 0:20.1 | and lecturing professor at DePaul University, |
| 0:23.2 | where he teaches a course that explores how science fiction authors have used the very popular |
| 0:28.9 | scientific advances of their time to inspire their creative works. |
| 0:34.2 | His work has appeared in Scientific American, U.S. News and World Report. His book is called |
| 0:39.7 | Horror on the Brain. He's got a tour coming up. We'll talk about that as well. Austin, welcome |
| 0:44.7 | to the program. Hi, George. Thank you. I'm thrilled to be here. Looking forward to that. |
| 0:50.4 | How in the world did you tie in the brain, neuroscience, and science fiction? |
| 0:57.0 | How did that all come together? |
| 0:59.5 | Well, a lot of it's sort of from my personal background. |
| 1:02.7 | I've always enjoyed science fiction. |
| 1:05.6 | I've really enjoyed horror and feeling, you know, eerie and getting those, the goosebumps. And I just love |
| 1:13.9 | October in general. It's a wonderful season as we start to think about Halloween more and more. |
| 1:19.5 | And professionally, I've always been thinking about how the brain works. And I've always been |
| 1:25.3 | curious about that. So it was just kind of a natural |
| 1:29.2 | mash-up of my two worlds colliding October is one of my favorite months to us |
| 1:35.5 | and I love this season the weather cools down it's just perfect isn't that yeah it's |
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