Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Announcement:

06 Jan 2024

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At the end of last month's episode I announced that it was the last regular episode of Brain Science. It has been 17 years since episode 1 was release...

BS 214 Seventeenth Annual Review Episode

15 Dec 2023

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This is the 17th Annual Review episode of Brain Science, celebrating the first episode which aired on December 15, 2006. We review the highlights of 2...

BS 213 Kevin Mitchell explores Free Will

27 Oct 2023

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In the this episode of Brain Science we talk with neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell about his new book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. While...

BS 212 Thomas Metzinger on "The Ego Tunnel" (Encore)

22 Sep 2023

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This month's episode of Brain Science features Thomas Metzinger, author of "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self." Metzing...

BS 211 Molecular Biologist Seth Grant

25 Aug 2023

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This episode of Brain Science features the return of molecular biologist Seth Grant. We briefly review his decades of research into the complexity of ...

BS 210 Introduction to Neurotransmitters

28 Jul 2023

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This episode is our first review of neurotransmitters since episode 8 way back in 2007. We start with some basics of neuron function and brain anatomy...

BS 209 Luiz Pessoa "The Entangled Brain"

23 Jun 2023

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Luiz Pessoa, author of The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Wove...

BS 208 "Foolproof" with Sander van der Linden

26 May 2023

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This month's episode is an interview with Cambridge Psychology professor Sander van der Linden, author of "Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our M...

BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"

28 Apr 2023

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This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book "The Cognitive-Emotiona...

BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence

24 Mar 2023

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This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia in Spain. We talk ...

BS 205 Molecular Biologist Guy Caldwell (Part 2)

24 Feb 2023

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In this follow-up interview with molecular biologist Dr. Guy Caldwell we learn more about how the tools of molecular biology are used to unravel quest...

BS 204 Guy Caldwell: The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience

27 Jan 2023

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This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains how tools f...

BS 203 Sixteenth Anniversary of Brain Science

23 Dec 2022

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This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing h...

BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson

25 Nov 2022

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The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim does not stan...

BS 201 Brain Development with Bill Harris

28 Oct 2022

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. We explore how the...

BS 200 Embodied Cognition in Education with Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate

23 Sep 2022

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This month's episode is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning...

BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion

26 Aug 2022

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This month's episode is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions." This is an important book because it d...

BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson

22 Jul 2022

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This month's episode of Brain Science is a free encore playing of my interview with Evan Thompson about his book Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology,...

BS 197 Free Transcript: Frank Amthor "Neuroscience for Dummies"

12 Jul 2022

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This is the free transcript for Episode 197 with Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies. For unlimited access to all transcripts and the ent...

BS 197 (Encore) Neuroscience for Dummies with Frank Amthor

20 Jun 2022

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This month's episode of Brain Science features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobi...

BS 196 Consciousness with Hakwan Lau

27 May 2022

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective E...

BS 195 Neuroscience of Emotion with David Anderson

22 Apr 2022

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This month's episode is an interview with David J Anderson from Cal Tech. We talk about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. W...

BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of "The Grieving Brain"

25 Mar 2022

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The neuroscience of grief and grieving is a relatively new field, but one that offers practical discoveries for people of all backgrounds. This month ...

BS 193 "Embodied Mind:" What does this mean?

25 Feb 2022

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In this month's episode of Brain Science I explore two big picture questions: What does it mean to claim that the Mind is "embodied?" and How does thi...

BS 192 Nina Kraus talks about Sound and the Brain

28 Jan 2022

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Nina Kraus, author of "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World." D...

BS 191 15th Annual Review Episode

22 Dec 2021

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This is our 15th annual review episode, which highlights the guests and key ideas we have shared in 2021. Interviews included return visits from Jeff ...

BS 190 How our Brain gets things done with David Badre

24 Nov 2021

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This month's episode of Brain Science features David Badre, author of "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done." He gives us an overview of recent res...

BS 189 Antonio Damasio, author of "Feeling and Knowing"

29 Oct 2021

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Neurologist and best-selling author Antonio Damasio is one of our most requested guests. This month we finally had the opportunity to talk about his n...

BS 188 Anil Seth on Consciousness

24 Sep 2021

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BS 188 features neuroscientist Anil Seth discussing his new book "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness." We have had many guests talk about consc...

BS 187 David Eagleman on his new book "LiveWired"

27 Aug 2021

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BS 187 features bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman. We talk about his latest book "Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing ...

BS 186 Mark Humphries author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds"

23 Jul 2021

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This month's episode features Mark Humphries, author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds." We explore how the brain uses e...

BS 185 Stephen Fleming on "the neuroscience of self-awareness"

25 Jun 2021

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Dr. Stephen Fleming, author of "Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness." We explore th...

BS 184 Mark Solms, author of "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness"

28 May 2021

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In this month's episode of Brain Science, neuroscientist Mark Solms talks about his new book "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Origins of Conscious...

BS 183 Jeff Hawkins shares his new theory of Intelligence

23 Apr 2021

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Jeff Hawkins has spent nearly twenty years on a quest to discover how the brain's cortex generates intelligence. In this episode he talks about his ne...

BS 182 Iris Berent author of "The Blind Storyteller"

26 Mar 2021

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This month's episode of Brain Science features Iris Berent, author of "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature." We explore how our de...

BS 181 Sir Simon Baron-Cohen

26 Feb 2021

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This month's episode of Brain Science features Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, one of the world's leading researchers on the neuroscience of autism. We discuss...

BS 180 E Bruce Goldstein

22 Jan 2021

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with neuroscientists E. Bruce Goldstein, author of "The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the...

BS 179 14th Annual Review Episode

25 Dec 2020

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It's time for our 14th Annual Review Episode! Despite the challenges of 2020, it has been an outstanding year for Brain Science: the show passed 11 m...

BS 178 Peter Sterling

27 Nov 2020

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This month's episode of Brain Science features neuroscientist Peter Sterling sharing the key ideas for his new book What Is Health? Allostasis and the...

BS 177 Bernard Baars with David Edelman

23 Oct 2020

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Bernard Baars is a pioneer in the neuroscience of consciousness. He first proposed Global Workspace Theory back in 1980, which was before consciousnes...

BS 176 Seth Grant on Synapse Complexity

25 Sep 2020

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This is my fifth interview with molecular biologist and neuroscientist Dr. Seth Grant from The University of Edinburgh. Dr. Grant was recently recogni...

BS 175 Premium Episode Transcript

28 Aug 2020

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This is the transcript of BS 175 with Carol Tavris co-author of "Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad...

BS 175 Carol Tavris explains Cognitive Dissonance

28 Aug 2020

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This extremely timely episode of Brain Science features an interview with Dr. Carol Tavris, co-author of the newly released third edition of Mistakes ...

BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of "The Spontaneous Brain"

24 Jul 2020

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BS 174 is an interview with neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff about his fascinating book "The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to t...

BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty

26 Jun 2020

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In this special episode of Brain Science host Dr Ginger Campbell reads an excerpt from her bestseller "Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origin of Certain...

BS 172 "The Brain from the Inside Out" with György Buzsáki

22 May 2020

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In this episode I talk with neuroscientist György Buzsáki about his new book The Brain from Inside Out. We explore how abandoning what he calls the ...

BS 171 Premium Episode Transcript

24 Apr 2020

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This is the Premium episode transcript for BS 171 with Matthew Cobb, author of The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience. Scroll to f...

BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of "The Idea of the Brain"

24 Apr 2020

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This episode of Brain Science is an interview with neuroscientist Matthew Cobb author of "The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience."...

BS 170 Numbers in the Brain with Andreas Nieder

27 Mar 2020

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BS 170 is an interview with Andreas Nieder, author of "A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct." We talk about the surprising discover...

BS 169 Glial Cells with Doug Fields (Encore)

13 Mar 2020

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This episode is an exploration of glial cells with R Douglas Fields, author of "The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will He...

BS168 Cecilia Heyes author of "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking"

28 Feb 2020

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BS 168 is an interview with psychologist Cecilia Heyes from Oxford University in the UK. We talk about her fascinating book "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cu...

BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene explores "How We Learn"

14 Feb 2020

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This is an interview with Stanislas Dehaene about his new book How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now.  According to ne...

BS 166: Stephen Macknik talks about Vision Research

24 Jan 2020

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Brain Science 166 features the return of neuroscientist Stephen Macknik. We talk about his recent work that is focused on developing a new visual pros...

BS 165: Magic as a Tool for Understanding the Brain

10 Jan 2020

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This episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientists Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. We talk about their internat...

165 Free Episode Transcript

06 Jan 2020

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I am including the transcript of this episode for free because it is an encore presentation of an interview that originally aired as BSP 72. It featur...

Brain Science 2020 (Trailer)

03 Jan 2020

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Brain Science is entering its 14th year and for the first time since 2008 I will be producing two episodes a month. They will come out  on the 2nd an...

BS 164 Thirteenth Annual Review Episode

20 Dec 2019

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This is our 13th annual review episode. I share a few highlights from episodes 153-163 and include a few extra reflections on the recent 4-part series...

Extra: Susan Schneider, author of "Artificial You"

15 Dec 2019

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This episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with Susan Schneider, author of a fascinating new book called Artificial You: AI and the Future of Y...

BS 163 Christof Koch on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

22 Nov 2019

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Christof Koch returns to Brain Science for the 3rd time and in this episode he shares his new book The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Wi...

BS 162 "Rethinking Consciousness" with Michael Graziano

25 Oct 2019

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This episode is an interview with Dr. Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. We discuss ...

BS 161 Premium Episode Transcript

27 Sep 2019

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This is the Premium Episode Transcript for BS 161 with Joseph Ledoux, author of "The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We ...

BS 161 Joseph Ledoux

27 Sep 2019

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Respected neuroscientist Dr. Joseph Ledoux's new book is The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. I...

BS 160 Neuroscience of Consciousness

23 Aug 2019

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This month's episode is the beginning a four part series about the Neuroscience of Consciousness. This month I am discussing and comparing the ideas f...

BS 159 Kevin Mitchell, author of "Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are"

26 Jul 2019

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BS 159 is an interview with Dr. Kevin Mitchell, author of Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. We discuss the fact that our brain-...

BS 158 Philosopher Patricia Churchland discusses "Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition"

28 Jun 2019

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This month marks the return of popular Brain Science guest Dr. Patricia Churchland (BS 55 and BS 81). We talk about her new book, Conscience: The Ori...

BS 157 Donald MacKay, author of "Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works"

24 May 2019

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This episode of Brain Science features Dr. Donald MacKay, author of Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach...

BS 156 Russell Poldrack talks about Brain Imaging (fMRI)

26 Apr 2019

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Stanford psychologist, Dr Russell A. Poldrack, author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroi...

BS 155 Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with Paul Middlebrooks

22 Mar 2019

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BS 155 is an interview with neuroscientist Paul Middlebrooks, host of the Brain-Inspired podcast. We explore the main theme of his show, which is the ...

BS 154 Alan Castel explores the psychology of successful aging

22 Feb 2019

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BS 154 is an interview with Dr. Alan Castel, author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. In the past we have discussed how our bra...

BS 153 "Understanding the Brain" with John Dowling

25 Jan 2019

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Episode 153 of Brain Science is an interview with Harvard neuroscientist John Dowling. We talk about his latest book Understanding the Brain: From Ce...

BS 152 Twelfth Annual Review Episode

28 Dec 2018

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BS 152 is our 12th annual review episode.   In 2018 nine new books were featured and the subjects covered included memory, peri-personal cells, crea...

BS 151 Neuroscience of Emotion

21 Nov 2018

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BS 151 is a discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson. We talk about key ideas from the book ...

151 Premium Version (Ad Free); Emotion

21 Nov 2018

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This the Premium- Ad Free version of BS 151, which is a discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Ande...

Brain Science Live #6: Live from Boston

11 Nov 2018

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This Premium episode was recorded on Facebook Live on November 1, 2018. It includes a look back at BS 146, which was an interview with Alan Jasanoff, ...

BS 150 Seth Grant Explores the Synaptome

26 Oct 2018

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BS 150 is my 4th interview with Dr. Seth Grant, the molecular biologist who has discovered surprising things about the evolution of the synapse, inclu...

BS 150 Premium Ad-free Version

26 Oct 2018

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This is the Premium ad-free version of BS 150 with Seth Grant, the molecular biologist who has discovered surprising things about the evolution of th...

Announcements about Boston and Australia

13 Oct 2018

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This brief announcement is to correct a mistake I made in BS 148. For several months I have been talking about my trip to Australia in 2019. I have po...

Brain Science Live #5

12 Oct 2018

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In this month's Brain Science Live (recorded via Facebook Live) I talked about BS 145 with Dr. Maryanne Wolf who has spent her career studying what ha...

BS 149 Premium (Ad-Free) Version: Happy Brain

28 Sep 2018

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This is the premium-ad free version of BS 149, which is an interview with Dean Burnett, author of Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why. P...

BS 149 "Happy Brain" with Dr. Dean Burnett

28 Sep 2018

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Brain Science 149 is an episode for listeners of all backgrounds. It is an interview with Dr. Dean Burnett, author of Happy Brain: Where Happiness Co...

Brain Science Live #4: Language in the Brain

14 Sep 2018

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This month's Facebook Live session was a discussion of BS 144, which was about Language in the Brain. This audio is provided for Premium and Patreon s...

BS 148 Pioneering neuroscientist Eve Marder

24 Aug 2018

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BS 148 is the interview with pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Eve Marder, which I originally recorded back in 2009. I am reposting it now as a follow-up ...

Brain Science Live 3: On Creativity

15 Aug 2018

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For this month's session on Facebook Live I did a brief recap of BS 143, which was an interview with Elkhonon Goldberg about his new book Creativity. ...

BS 147 Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience- ad free version

15 Aug 2018

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This is the Premium ad-free version of BS 147, which is a discussion of  Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nas...

BS 147: Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience

27 Jul 2018

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BS 147 is a discussion of the new biography Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nassim. This is an intellectual ...

Brain Science Live #2

15 Jul 2018

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This premium episode is the audio file taken from our Facebook Live session recorded on July 5, 2018. It is a brief recap of BS 142, which was an inte...

BS 146 Premium Ad-free Version (Alan Jasanoff)

21 Jun 2018

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This is the Premium ad-free version of BS 146 with Alan Jasanoff, author of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make...

BS 146 Alan Jasanoff on The Biological Mind

21 Jun 2018

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This is an interview with MIT neuroscientist, Dr. Alan Jasanoff about his book The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to M...

BS 145 The Reading Brain with Maryanne Wolf

25 May 2018

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BS 145 celebrates the return of Dr. Maryanne Wolf who was featured back in BSP 29 when we talked about her bestseller Proust and the Squid: The Story ...

BS 144 Language in the Brain with Angela Friederici

27 Apr 2018

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This is an interview with Dr. Angela Friederici, author of Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity. Her book is an extensive ...

BS Live #1 Memory

20 Apr 2018

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This is the audio of our first Facebook Live session recorded on April 5, 2018. It is a brief review of BS 141, which was a interview with Dr. Rodrig...

143 Premium Episode Transcript

24 Mar 2018

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BS 143 is an interview with Elkhonon Goldberg, author of Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation. This is the final version of the trans...

BS 143 Creativity with Elkhonon Goldberg

23 Mar 2018

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BS 143 is an interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation. We explore the roles of both the p...

BS 142 Michael Graziano explores Peripersonal Neurons

23 Feb 2018

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BS 142 is an interview with neuroscientist Michael Graziano about his latest book The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Huma...

141 Premium Episode Transcript

26 Jan 2018

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This is the transcript for BS 141, which is an interview with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "J...

BS 141 Rodrigo Quian Quiroga on Memory and Perception

25 Jan 2018

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BS 141 is an interview with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron."  We expl...

BS 140 Brain Science Review of 2017

22 Dec 2017

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BS 140 is our 11th Annual Review episode. We look back at the highlights from 2017. New listeners will get a good feel for the ideas and guests that a...

BS 139 Jeff Hawkins from Numenta

27 Nov 2017

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Jeff Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005, shortly after publishing his best seller "On Intelligence." Numenta's goal is to create a computer model of how ...

BS 138 John Medina: Brain Rules for Aging Well

23 Oct 2017

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In BS 138 Dr. John Medina returns to discuss his latest book Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp. This is a...

BS 137 Seth Grant: "Genetic Lifespan Calendar"

25 Sep 2017

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In BS 137 neuroscientist Seth Grant describes his surprising new discovery that brain complexity is controlled by a "genetic lifespan calendar" that d...