We do a lot of things that at first seem like a natural reaction to the situation at hand. We laugh, we cry, we yawn and stretch.
But what's going on in our brains when we do these things is very different
from what we think we're doing. For example, scientists claim that laughter is the evolution of the sound of panting during play...huh huh huh became ha ha ha. And "ha" is a universal language.
When Alice says curiouser and curiouser she was talking about Wonderland, but she may well have been talking about our brain. This week, just like Alice, we're going to slide down a rabbit hole of our own to investigate some of the curious behaviours wired into our brains. Yawning...riots of laughter... scratching... they're all a bit odd when you think about them.
We had some curious conversations with Dr. Alan Kingstone, Professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, neuroscientist Dr. Yves de Koninck of the University of Laval, and Dr. Robert Provine, neuroscientist and Professor of psychology at the University of Baltimore, Maryland. Ranging from the evolution of curious mammalian behaviours that we've inherited to the neural functioning of them in the brain, we look for weird this week on Think About It.
Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
Monday at 5:30 p.m.
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