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EP 80: Zab Johnson, PhD, on the Neuroscience of Perception

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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Is It Hardware or Hardwired?

Some of the stuff that we're talking about about decision making is going to be software sort of stuff. Some of it is more baked in hardware style things where look, I feel stress. My body dumps epinephrine and my pupils dialy the field of my vision changes. And it's actually going to change the way that I experience and interact with the world around me. It takes a little bit of time for evidence to build up in your brain to decide whether we're trying to see more neuron to fire or not fire based on thresholds and action potentials.

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