Sense of Mind

Nov 02 2024 119 ep. 45 mins

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I’m Andrew Cooper-Sansone and you are listening to the Sense of Mind Podcast! Welcome to Sense of Mind, where you’ll learn neuroscience in an easy and digestible way. We know that understanding the human brain is the key to happiness and peace of mind. What you get: 🧠 Neuroscience explainer videos + interviews with neuroscientists 🧠 Sent straight to your inbox. Join this new and easy way to learn about your brain. Follow, Share and Subscribe to the YouTube Channel and Connect on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/senseofmind

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Stop Getting Distracted! The Neuroscience of Attention

Nov 02 2024 13 mins

When you lose focus, you lose the ability to achieve your goals. And, unfortunately, we live in a world of endless distractions. Yet, by understanding the neuroscience of attention, you can train your brain to focus on what matters. -- Please support this channel by signing up for Sense of Mind's Patreon and get bonus content every month: https://www.patreon.com/senseofmind You'l

The Neuroscience of Emotions: How to Control Feelings

Sep 07 2024 22 mins

You are a living organism. That’s obvious, but this simple fact helps explain one of the most profoundly important aspects of your life: your emotions. In fact, it teaches you how to control your emotions. -- Please support this channel by signing up for Sense of Mind's Patreon and get bonus content every month: https://www.patreon.com/senseofmind You'll get: - Exclus

Avoiding Discomfort Won't Make You Happy... But THIS Will

Aug 27 2024 31 mins

Happiness is not always easy. Yet, there are tangible skills we can build that will make it easier. If we give some time to fostering awareness, focus, and our capacity for connection, it is likely that our lives will get better. This livestream was originally aired live only for Patreon supporters of Sense of Mind. Patreon supporters also get access to an exclusive written blog p

The Human Brain’s Greatest Invention: The Neuroscience of Language (The Social Brain ep 42)

Jul 19 2024 67 mins

Something fascinating is happening as you listen to this episode. You are effortlessly converting a series of sounds into meaningful thoughts. To do that, your brain has to take a sound wave and somehow extract from it a specific message that I’m trying to convey to you right now. We rarely stop to think about how weird language is. It’s even rarer that we ask ourselves how our

Discussing “The Neurobiology of Interoception and Affect”

Jul 11 2024 50 mins

What makes life good or bad? One answer to that question is that positive and negative feelings are at the core of happiness and its opposite. That leads to the question of what feelings are and how the brain produces them. In this video, I’m going to discuss a fascinating paper published in February 2024 about the neuroscience of bodily and emotional feelings. The paper is call

Time, Music, and The Brain (The Social Brain - Patreon ep 5)

Jul 08 2024 25 mins

In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience of time, music, free will, emotions, memory, the self, and what we've learned from our research on these topics. If you’re reading this, then you’re watching the public version of this video, so if you want to watch the second half, go to https://www.patreon.com/thesocialbrain and sign up for the “Premium” tier. You’ll get

Is Evolution True? Examining the Evidence

Jul 01 2024 75 mins

Many of us take evolution for granted, but over the years I've received many comments from people who doubt whether it's true. In this episode, I'll describe the logic of and major evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection. 📖 Get 20% off your annual Shortform subscription by using this link: https://www.shortform.com/senseofmind This livestream was or

How Music Shapes Our Brain and Identity - The Social Brain ep 41

Jun 26 2024 62 mins

Music is clearly an important aspect of what it means to be human. It seems to have deep evolutionary roots, possibly even being the precursor to language. It seems to bond us together with other people, which may have conferred survival benefits to our prehistoric ancestors. And it impacts our brain like nothing else. For example, music has been shown to evoke emotions through uni

The Neuroscience of Exhaustion: How to Stay Motivated

Jun 17 2024 25 mins

We've all experienced the exhaustion of mental fatigue. If you work long enough and hard enough on a cognitively demanding task, you'll eventually lose motivation and focus. Worse yet, burnout is right around the corner. This video is a deep dive into the neuroscience of mental fatigue and how to stay motivated. If you value my work, please support it by going to https://

Where is NOW in the Brain? The Neuroscience of Time (The Social Brain ep 40)

Jun 10 2024 60 mins

Time is a limited resource and, in some ways, it’s our only resource in life. But what is time and why does it seem to flow at the rate it does? Why is it that our subjective sense of time can change so dramatically depending on the situation and our state of mind? How does the brain measure and experience time? In this episode, we will explore these questions from a neuroscient