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Each week on Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke, explore different aspects of human behavior and the brain.

Signal Detection (Part One)

When thinking about the concept of a "microaggression," what we're really doing is subscribing to signal-detection theory. What is the theory and how does it come into play when we're dissecting the behaviors of others?

In the first episode of this two-part conversation on Two Guys on Your HeadDr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss signal detection.

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