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Whether you are interested in serious topics like the history of neuroscience, practical topics like brain health or fun topics like popular culture, Brain Bytes is sure to provide your brain with some piece of information it didnt have before.

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In Brain Bytes, neuroscience educators Eric Chudler and Lise Johnson ask and answer more than one hundred questions about the brain. They look at whether size matters (whether humans have the largest brains); whether foods make people smarter; whether surfing online kill brain cells; why we dream; why cats like catnip; why we yawn; and why yawns are contagious, as well as how we can keep our brains healthy.

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Eric H. Chudler is the executive director of the Centre for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. He hosts the popular website Neuroscience for Kids. Lise Johnson is a neural engineer at the Centre for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering in Seattle, Washington.

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