{"podcast":{"title":"TED Health","slug":"ted-health-388141","podcast_index_feed_id":388141,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/iTunesPodcastTTHealth","website_url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FiTunesPodcastTTHealth","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67585b08102e6d4448d360b1/show-cover.jpg","author":"TED","episode_count":320,"summary":"What does exercise do to your brain? Can psychedelics treat depression? From smart daily habits to new medical breakthroughs, welcome to TED Health, with host Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider . TED speakers answer questions you never even knew you had, and share ideas you won't hear anywhere else, all around how we can live healthier lives. Follow Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider on Instagram at @shoshanamd and LinkedIn at @shoshanaungerleidermd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T14:18:00.919332+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-health-388141"},"episode":{"title":"How your brain affects your mind with Alex Rosenthal and Susan G. Wardle","slug":"how-your-brain-affects-your-mind-with-alex-rosenthal-and-susan-g-wardle","published_at":"2026-05-26T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-health-388141/how-your-brain-affects-your-mind-with-alex-rosenthal-and-susan-g-wardle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-health-388141","url":"https://audiocollective.ted.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67585b08102e6d4448d360b1/e/6a0ded8c163f100183865e2a/media.mp3","summary":"Picture this. You're scrolling late at night and a reel pops up advertising a seemingly magical wellness product with some scientific-sounding marketing language. Do you stick around and maybe even believe it? Or do you scroll away? In this episode, Shoshana explores the mind, and how perception affects it. She shares two talks about how different people can experience reality in wildly different ways. First, Alex Rosenthal shares how having aphantasia prevents him from generating mental images, then Susan G. Wardle dives into the science of perception and why some people see faces in places that don’t exist, like clouds and even potato chips. Talk featured Can you picture things in your mind? I can't | Alex Rosenthal What it means if you can see faces in objects | Susan G. Wardle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Picture this. You're scrolling late at night and a reel pops up advertising a seemingly magical wellness product with some scientific-sounding marketing l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1139,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ted-health-388141/episodes/how-your-brain-affects-your-mind-with-alex-rosenthal-and-susan-g-wardle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-health-388141/how-your-brain-affects-your-mind-with-alex-rosenthal-and-susan-g-wardle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}