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.

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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.

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07:05 Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts Defined

09:58 Why you feel emotions in your body

14:00 The Joy of Learning

15:28 Why emotions are sometimes unhelpful

16:00 The 2 Fundamental Emotion Regulation Strategies

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- Kobylińska, D., & Kusev, P. (2019). Flexible emotion regulation: How situational demands and individual differences influence the effectiveness of regulatory strategies. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 72.

- Feldman, M. J., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Lindquist, K. A. (2024). The neurobiology of interoception and affect. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

- Craig, Arthur Dewitt. "Interoception and emotion: a neuroanatomical perspective." Handbook of emotions 4th ed. (2016).

- Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 12(1), 1-23.

- Davis, K. L., & Montag, C. (2019). Selected principles of Pankseppian affective neuroscience. Frontiers in neuroscience, 12, 1025.

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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.

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Dahl, C. J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2020). The plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), 32197-32206.

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 brains do any of that.

In this episode, we’ll talk about all this while exploring some of the neuroscience of language.

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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 called “The Neurobiology of Interoception and Affect,” by Mallory J. Feldman, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and Kristen A. Lindquist, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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Feldman, M. J., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Lindquist, K. A. (2024). The neurobiology of interoception and affect. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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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 access to every exclusive Patreon-only episode of The Social Brain!

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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.

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1:00:21 Other Categories of Evidence

1:03:15 Artificial Selection (selective breeding)

1:06:17 Countering Young Earth Creationism

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Coyne, J. A. (2009). Why evolution is true. Viking.

Darwin, C. (1859). On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Dennis, M. Y., Nuttle, X., Sudmant, P. H., Antonacci, F., Graves, T. A., Nefedov, M., ... & Eichler, E. E. (2012). Evolution of human-specific neural SRGAP2 genes by incomplete segmental duplication. Cell, 149(4), 912-922.

Freedman, A. H., & Wayne, R. K. (2017). Deciphering the origin of dogs: From fossils to genomes. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 5(1), 281-307.

Leakey, L. S., Tobias, P. V., & Napier, J. R. (1964). A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Nature, 202(4927), 7-9.

Li, Y., Zhang, G., & Cui, J. (2022). Origin and deep evolution of human endogenous retroviruses in pan-primates. Viruses, 14(7), 1370.

Moorjani, P., Amorim, C. E. G., Arndt, P. F., & Przeworski, M. (2016). Variation in the molecular clock of primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(38), 10607-10612.

Reece, J. B., Urry, L. A., Cain, M. L., Wasserman, S. A., Minorsky, P. V., & Jackson, R. B. (2014). Chapters 22-25. In Campbell biology (10th ed.). Pearson.

Shubin, N. (2008). Your inner fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body. Pantheon Books.

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 unique neural pathways. Not only that, but music has also been found to help treat certain symptoms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

In this episode, we explore music from a neuroscientific and evolutionary angle.

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