The Brain

Neuropsychologist Pascal Saker explains the nature of attention and how it works using some interesting visual and auditory illusions. Audio

Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang have written a book called 'Welcome to Your Child's Brain: From In Utero to Uni'. Audio

Science Editor at The New York Times, Barbara Strauch has written books on the human brain in teenage and middle age years, and how research is expanding our knowledge of its development and function… Audio

Cliff Abraham: the brain and Alzheimer's Professor in Psychology and Director of the Brain Health Research Centre at the University of Otago, and international authority on brain mechanisms of memory… Audio

Dr Donna Rose Addis. Audio

Professor Cliff Abraham. Audio

Professor Michael Corballis Audio

Professor Richard Faull Audio

Dr Edward Mee Audio

Professor Jeffrey Ellenbogen from the department of neurology at Harvard Medical School explains brain rhythms and how we may keep sleeping through noises in the night. Audio

Dr Yuval Nir, Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Audio

This week Ideas looks at the musical brain. Audio