Heather berlin is a nervous scientist at the icon school of medicine in mount sinai and right here in new york city. There are some movies that specialize in unusual things going on in people's brains. Can you distinguish between fiction violence and actual violence? And if you do, then what's everybody complaining about? Why isn't all that been outlawed 100 years ago?
What does your brain do when watching movies? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the field of neurocinematics and the difference between fiction and reality with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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