Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012 - 11:00 PM
"Make Up Your Mind"
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS discovers the "you" inside your head - the part of your mind, sitting right behind your forehead, that decides what you do every waking second of the day. The program reconstructs a 150-year-old accident that caused a railroad worker named Phineas Gage to lose his sense of self; sees children's reasoning powers gradually come online; and scans Alan Alda's brain as he struggles to make decisions while feeling cheated.. D
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