The great brain debate - Ted Altschuler
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Throughout history, scientists have proposed conflicting ideas on how the brain carries out functions like perception, memory, and movement. Is each of these tasks carried out by a specific area of the brain? Or do multiple areas work together to accomplish them? Ted Altschuler investigates both sides of the debate.
Gall’s once popular method of measuring the skull to determine a person’s strong and weak mental faculties did not hold up to scrutiny and is now known to be pseudoscience. Why didn’t it hold up and why should this matter?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Ted Altschuler
- Director Steve Belfer
- Artist Carlos Palazio
- Animator Spencer Levy, Michelle Tessier, James Jacob
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Narrator Addison Anderson
