BS 185 Stephen Fleming on "the neuroscience of self-awareness"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Science of Self Awareness
The book is aimed at a broad audience of people who are interested in science, but maybe don't have prior knowledge of neuroscience or psychology. The key focus of the book is on self awareness, which is this ability to consciously reflect on ourselves and think about our behavior. And it's a defining feature of what we think makes us human. It's actually relatively recently, so probably in the past 60 or 70 years, that we've had the tools to measure meta cognition.
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