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Stephen Jackson

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham and Founder/Chief Scientific Officer of Neurotherapeutics Ltd (Neupulse wearable device for Tourette syndrome).

Oct 23, 2026

10:23
OK, carry on.
10:24
So we've only got to look at how often people in a conversation will mimic their behaviour.
10:29
So the suggestion is that this is part of a mechanism that promotes social bonding.
10:35
So that's one idea.
10:36
Yeah.
10:37
The idea I favor, and there are different flavors of this idea, but the most general idea is that it's part of a mechanism for understanding other people.
10:49
And it actually, I think, starts with understanding what's going on in the world.

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27:25
Can you tell us about abnormal yawning?

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