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Title:
How does the brain work? [videorecording]
JLCTITLE245:
[videorecording] / produced for WGBH/Boston by NOVA.
Edition:
Widescreen version.
Publication Information:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Distribution, c2011.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781608833610
Event Note:
Originally broadcast on television as a segment of "Nova scienceNOW" in 2011.
Abstract:
Explores the mysteries of the human brain, including the processing of visual information and current research on time perception and synesthesia.
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.
Reading Level:
TV rating: TV-G.
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title Contained Work:
Nova scienceNOW. Selections
Contents:
Magic and the brain / written, produced, and directed by Terri Randall ; featuring magicians Penn and Teller -- Can machines think like us? / telescript by Sarah Holt, story by Michael Bicks, produced and directed by Michael Bicks & Sarah Holt -- Magnetic mind control -- David Eagleman / produced by Joshua Seftel & Jesse Sweet ; written and directed by Joshua Seftel.
Performer:
Host: Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Technical Details:
DVD, stereo.
Language:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing, audio-described for the blind.
English SDH subtitles.