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.
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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
