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November 9, 2006

Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

This first-person account of being in a game show is both well-written and interesting...

This summer—the start of my final year in the CNS Ph.D. program—I decided to apply my graduate skills to a decidedly practical purpose and auditioned for a turn in the show's perilous hot seat.

I went to New York, where I passed a multiple-choice audition test. Two weeks later, I received the call to appear on the syndicated version of Millionaire, hosted by the empathic and playful Meredith Vieira. To prepare, I focused first on memory techniques, the subject of my doctoral dissertation.

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Posted by thdyck on November 9, 2006

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