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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind

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Martin Sixsmith examines what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

Martin Sixsmith presents a history of psychology and seeks to understand what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind: Man, Machine and Memory

15/05/2014

Man, Machine and Memory

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Martin Sixsmith explores the way our brains perceive and process information.

Martin Sixsmith examines research that explores the way our brains perceive and process information. From May 2014.

In the 1950s, mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker Alan Turing envisaged a sophisticated computer whose mechanical generation of responses would be indistinguishable from that of a human. 

In this programme Martin Sixsmith looks at the way this metaphor of human cognition has informed research into memory and perception. 

He considers the work of the 1930s Cambridge psychologist Frederic Bartlett and the American memory specialist George Miller. He talks to Alan Baddeley who with Graham Hitch developed a new theory of working memory, and to Peter Thompson of the University of York about the way our brains perceive and process information - sometimes failing to spot the most obvious.


Producer: Sara Parker
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

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