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Lecture 13: Thinking

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This lecture uses brain teasers and word problems to highlight mechanisms that drive human thinking -- e.g. functional fixedness, heuristics, and framing. The lecture also touches briefly on the role of the brain’s frontal lobes in thought and emotions.

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