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What Makes a Genius?
Title
What Makes a Genius? [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2010.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (51 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 02, 2010.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Can modern genetics, psychology, and neuroscience actually identify the qualities that make up human creativity and brilliance? This program follows innovative research which may help determine what makes a person a genius-if such a label even makes sense. Dr. Manuel Casanova of the University of Louisville has detected differences in brain structure that may account for extreme intelligence. Dr. Justin Halberda of Johns Hopkins University administers a color-coded computer test that measures latent mathematical ability in children. And Dr. Elly Nedivi of MIT has, through studying Pavlovian responses in mice, found a gene associated with learning. Artists and savants are also featured.
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Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd., 2010
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
11 & up.
Contents
Math Wizard (3:47)
Historical View of Brain Capacity (2:46)
Brain Anatomy and Genius (2:43)
Innate Abilities (5:06)
Genes and Intelligence (4:23)
Gene for Learning (2:33)
Neuroscience and Intelligence (4:32)
Brain Development and Genes (4:58)
Child Prodigy/Savant (4:26)
Plasticity of Adult Brain (4:00)
Creativity (3:41)
Inhibition vs. Creativity (3:53)
Brain Adaptability (2:30)
Videorecording number
41961 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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