Classics in Brain, Cognition and Behavior

By Georgia Tech Psychology

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Welcome to Classics in Brain, Cognition, and Behavior — a podcast series exploring the foundational discoveries that shaped our understanding of the human mind. Here, we revisit the classic papers on topics like perception, memory, mental imagery, attention, language, and decision-making, reflecting on their historical context, scientific contributions, and ongoing influence on the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or just fascinated by the mind, this series brings the past to life — one classic at a time.

Episode Date
Perception in a Single Spike: Barlow’s Classic Hypothesis
Aug 19, 2025
Are Emotions Just Bodily Reactions?
Aug 19, 2025
What Is An Emotion?
Aug 19, 2025
Conditioned Emotional Reactions: The Little Albert Study
Aug 19, 2025
Why Gestalt Psychology Changed How We See the Mind
Aug 19, 2025
The Limits of Using Brain Maps to Explain Behavior
Aug 08, 2025
The Psychologist's Frame of Reference
Aug 08, 2025
The Psychology of Self-Justification: Festinger’s Forced Compliance Study
Aug 08, 2025
The Social Self
Jul 23, 2025
Maslow’s Motivation Theory: What Truly Drives Us?
Jul 23, 2025
Experimental Introspection and the Search for the Self
Jul 23, 2025
Berkeley’s Theory of Vision
Jul 01, 2025
Early Psychology Labs and the Rise of Scientific Psychology
Jul 01, 2025
Sensorial vs. Muscular Reactions: A Classic Debate in Psychophysics
Jul 01, 2025
Motor or Sensory? Reaction Time and the Psychology of Individual Differences
Jun 25, 2025
"Sensorial" and "Muscular" Reactions
Jun 25, 2025
Attention and Reaction
Jun 25, 2025
The Biological Foundations of Mind: Origins of Physiological Psychology
Jun 24, 2025
The New Psychology
Jun 24, 2025
Studying the Mind Without Language: Watson’s Animal Experiments
Jun 24, 2025
Do We Inherit What We Learn? Modification, Variation, and the Long Debate
May 29, 2025
Are We Automata?
May 29, 2025
The Nature of Love
May 29, 2025
The Contribution of Psychology to Education
May 23, 2025
A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
May 23, 2025
The Magical Number Seven
May 23, 2025
Balance in the Mind: Heider’s Theory of Cognitive Organization
May 22, 2025
A Study of Mental Statistics
May 22, 2025
Exploring the Mind's Eye: Statistics of Mental Imagery
May 22, 2025