Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn: The brain and collaboration

Cognitive Scientist Stephen Kosslyn sits down with PhotoWings to talk about an experiment he conducted regarding the brain. His team measured how problem-solving teamwork is affected by pairing people with different types of abilities together. Drawing from the results, he discusses some conclusions about assembling effective teams and how similar tests could benefit the world.

Stephen Kosslyn is a brain expert and Founding Dean of the Minerva Schools at KGI. Formerly, he was the Director for The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), at Stanford University and Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard University. His areas of research include learning and memory, meaning and representation, as well as reasoning and problem solving.

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