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Episode | Date |
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Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Lawson R. Wulsin, "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More Or Less" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
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Nov 26, 2023 |
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, "Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach" (Transcript, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
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Aug 26, 2023 |
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
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Aug 03, 2023 |
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
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Jul 14, 2023 |
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)
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May 11, 2023 |
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
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Apr 25, 2023 |
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience
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Apr 02, 2023 |
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
Making Meaning Episode 20: Love, Work, and Play
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Rick Strassman, "The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca" (Ulysses Press, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
Daniel Bergner, "The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches" (Ecco, 2022)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
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May 31, 2022 |
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
John Lardas Modern, "Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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May 23, 2022 |
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
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May 18, 2022 |
David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Owen Flanagan, "How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
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Apr 05, 2022 |
Jill Bolte Taylor, "Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life" (Hay House, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer
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Mar 10, 2022 |
The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer, "The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities" (Little, Brown Spark, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
David Robson, "The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World" (Henry Holt, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro
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Feb 18, 2022 |
Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
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Dec 31, 2021 |
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
Alcino Silva, “Learning and Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
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Oct 20, 2021 |
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
Stephen Kosslyn, “Applied Psychology: Thinking Critically” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Laura Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
Nita Farahany, “Neurolaw” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Carol Dweck, “Mindsets: Growing Your Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
Erik Hoel, "The Revelations" (Overlook Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
John Duncan, “Investigating Intelligence” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Diana Deutsch, “Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Patricia Churchland, “Philosophy of Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
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May 28, 2021 |
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
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May 03, 2021 |
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
J. Jureidini and L. B. McHenry, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" (Wakefield Press, 2020)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Daniel J. Levitin, "Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives" (Dutton Books, 2020)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
R. Douglas Fields, "Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better" (BenBella, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A New History" (Polity, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts, "Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
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Sep 24, 2020 |
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind of An American Family" (Doubleday, 2020)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2020 |