E76 - Bird Bones and the Mind's Eye

APR 6, 202648 MIN
Don't Pee on Your Leg (and other scientific misconceptions)

E76 - Bird Bones and the Mind's Eye

APR 6, 202648 MIN

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<p>Camden, Margaret, and guest David discuss if bird bones are hollow so birds can fly (6:48) and whether everyone sees things the same way in their mind (22:09).</p><p>Camden&#39;s Misconception: Bird bones are hollow so birds can fly</p><p>Citations:</p><ul><li>&quot;What If? 2&quot; by Randall Munroe</li><li>The Science of Birds Podcast — &quot;How Birds Breathe&quot;</li><li>&quot;Bone Density and the Lightweight Skeletons of Birds&quot; by Elizabeth Dumont, UMass Amherst</li><li>Discovery — &quot;Why Do Birds Have Hollow Bones?&quot;</li><li>Montana Natural History Center — &quot;Avian Adaptations&quot;</li><li>Bird Spot — &quot;How Birds&#39; Skeletons Evolved For Flight&quot;</li><li>Wilderness Awareness School — &quot;Bird Skeletons and Avian Physiology&quot;</li></ul><p>David&#39;s Misconception: We all see things the same way in our minds</p><p>Citations:</p><ul><li>Zeman et al. (2015) — &quot;Lives Without Imagery: Congenital Aphantasia.&quot; Cortex</li><li>Zeman (2024) — &quot;Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia: Exploring Imagery Vividness Extremes.&quot; Trends in Cognitive Sciences</li><li>Dance, Ipser &amp; Simner (2022) — &quot;The Prevalence of Aphantasia in the General Population.&quot; Consciousness and Cognition</li><li>Marks (1973) — Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ). British Journal of Psychology</li><li>Kay et al. (2022) — &quot;The Pupillary Light Response as a Physiological Index of Aphantasia.&quot; eLife</li><li>Pearson (2019) — &quot;The Human Imagination: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Mental Imagery.&quot; Nature Reviews Neuroscience</li><li>Milton et al. (2021) — &quot;Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes.&quot; Cerebral Cortex Communications</li><li>Bainbridge et al. (2021) — &quot;Quantifying Aphantasia Through Drawing.&quot; Cortex</li><li>Wicken et al. (2021) — &quot;The Critical Role of Mental Imagery in Human Emotion.&quot; Proceedings of the Royal Society B</li></ul>