How Do Our Brains Really Communicate?
Some recent research on how our brains work overturns previous thinking about the mind, with implications for how we communicate ...
Can Your Body and Your Brain Think Together?
One of the mysteries of the human mind that we are only beginning to delve into is the relationship between ...
Why We Get Defensive, in Neuroscientific Terms
We are still in the early days of understanding how our brains work. Neuroscience adds to our bank of knowledge ...
Should You Smile for the Camera? Be Careful — It May Age You!
We humans smile a great deal. We smile when we’re happy; we smile when we’re sad, to disguise the feeling ...
Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
E19 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to Allison Coffin, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Dr. Allison Coffin is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Washington State University Vancouver, where her research focuses ...
What Audiences Want from Their Speakers: Personas, Part 2
In my last post, I talked about the importance of determining what kind of persona you wished to put forward ...
Are there three kinds of intelligence, and should we speak to them?
I’ve got bad news for fans of the so-called learning styles – visual, auditory, kinesthetic or tactile. They have been ...
Three Brain Myths That Hinder Speakers
I frequently encounter several misunderstandings about the brain on the speaking circuit that lead, arguably, to less effective speeches. So, ...
The Learning Paradox for Speakers
The human brain is a much more powerful learning machine than we think. A recent study (Buch et al., 2021) ...
