Friday, February 05, 2010

Today's Show: The Hidden Brain

4:30pm EST - Shankar Vedantam, longtime author of the Washington Post's "Department of Human Behaviour" column, joins us this afternoon to speak about his new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, which takes us through case studies that illistrate different aspects of brain function, emotinal response, and cognitive processes that happen outside of our conscious awareness.

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