Dr. Lorin Lachs, Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Fresno State

May 10, 2024 01:07:24
Dr. Lorin Lachs, Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Fresno State
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Dr. Lorin Lachs, Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Fresno State

May 10 2024 | 01:07:24

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Show Notes

Today, we have Dr. Lorin Lachs on the show. Dr. Lachs is a professor of psychology and the chair of the psychology department at Fresno State. He has a number of research interests including Multimodal speech perception, Perception of Spoken Language, Psycholinguistics, Perception of Virtual Reality, and Video Gaming Behavior, having published a number of academic articles in these fields. We have a wide ranging conversation that includes many of these topics, their practical, and a host of other topics including free will and determinism, neuralink, online language tools, the replication crisis and much more. Please enjoy our conversation.

Books:

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Steven Pinker

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R Hofstadter

The Expanse Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey

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