Matthew Taylor
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407 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
Matthew Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And more importantly, understanding the brain will help make the classroom a happier, more stimulating place.
But what happens when not just teachers, but the very powerful in society get their hands on brain science, the big companies, the governments?
Isn't brain culture one of corporate manipulation or personal liberation?
Find out in next week's third and final edition of Brain Culture.
Imagine a world where our institutions, our social attitudes and even the way we think of ourselves are influenced by our understanding of how brains work.
Welcome to Brain Culture.
Over recent decades, neuroscience and related disciplines have been the fastest growing areas of scientific inquiry.
And now this work is coming out of the laboratory and starting to change the world around us.
How about the scientists who are exploring the anatomy of evil, the brains of criminal psychopaths?
That's Dr. Kent Keel.
He wants the legal system to see criminals, even serial killers, differently.
In the first of three programs, I'll be exploring controversial new ideas of a criminal justice process shaped by brain science.
But before we get to the stories of operating on paedophile brains or of lie detection using brain imaging, let's look at pioneering research work being done in Britain right now.
It goes back to the basics, before any crime has been committed, by using functional brain scanning to explore what makes some adults and children behave badly in the first place.
Stephen, not his real name, is just seven, but he already has a track record of naughty behaviour.
He goes to a special school in the south of England, where neuroscientists and teachers are developing new ways of responding to children like him.
These children's brains just don't seem to respond as normal, and it's this that makes it so hard to help them behave in ways society finds acceptable.
Stephen is one of the children who's having to learn automatic reactions that the rest of us just take for granted.
Tara is his teacher.
Stephen's willingness to hurt people may be the result of a problem of the way his brain works.
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