Special consultant Dr. Jennifer Ryan Ph.D is an expert on how memory
is organized and how it changes with age or injury
Joe co-hosted the Life Lab pilot with Toronto actor/writer
Joseph Adam
... and then pose questions based on what they saw, without the
trainees knowing what type of coffee they consumed
Joe, Jennifer and Joseph wrap up the show from the Glenn Gould studio at
CBC Toronto
Joe and Joseph give law enforcement trainees coffee, half of them regular and the other half decaf, ask them to watch a thirty-second stage scene ...
Jennifer sets up an experiment to test the effects of caffeine
on memory
Joe talks to Training Manager Derek O'Reilly about The Knowledge, the training technique Black Cab drivers in London use to memorize city routes
Joe looks for a volunteer at a Toronto pub to help him and Joseph try out some
memory tricks for remembering names
Joe went to London, England to visit with British memory champion Ben Pridmore at Canada House to have him demonstrate his world record memory skills
In television, a pilot is a stand-alone episode that can become a series if
picked up by a network. Joe co-hosted a pilot for CBC called Life Lab, which explores
the subject of memory and how the brain works, for their documentary unit.
