How the Brain Fills in the Blanks

December 16, 2009
Host: Armand DiMele Guests: Sherri Siegel

The brain is wired to fill in gaps, and that drive shapes everything from vision to dreams to romantic longing. Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. trace the neuroscience of synapses and blind spots outward to nightmares, compulsive thinking, and why an excited amygdala conjures danger from thin air.

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