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113: Action-Packed Research on How our Brains Learn and Perceive Complex Movements - Dr. Emily Cross
113: Action-Packed Research on How our Brains Learn and Perceive Complex Movements - Dr. Emily Cross
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Dr. Emily Cross is a Senior Lecturer of cognitive neuroscience and a dancer who shares a dual appointment at the School of Psychology at Bangor University in North Wales and the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She studied psychology and dance as an undergraduate at Pomona College, and went on to complete a MSc in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand as a Fulbright fellow. She returned to the USA to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College, and then moved on to postdoctoral positions at the University of Nottingham in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Emily is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.
Released:
Jul 28, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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