Brain Science Podcast

Time 2020-10-25 01:04:38

Web Name: Brain Science Podcast

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Home ​The Brain Science Podcast explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are unraveling the mysteries of how our brains make us who we are. It has a world wide audience and includes interviews with many leading neuroscientists.The Brain Science Podcast features the latest books about neuroscience as well as interviews with leading scientists from around the world. BS 177 is an interview with Dr. Bernard Baars, creator of the Global Workspace Theory that lead to many contemporary theories about how the brain generates conscious experience. He is joined by his colleague Dr. David Edelman. BS 175 is an interview with Carol Tavris, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. We originally talked back in 2011, but in this interview we talk about why Dr. Tavris felt that it was essential to publish a 3rd edition that includes recent political events in the United States. BS 174 is an interview with Georg Northoff about his book The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem. We explore the surprising discovering that much of the brain’s activity is entirely independent of inputs from the senses, how this spontaneous activity interacts with stimuli, and the implications of these discoveries on our understanding of how the brain generates conscious experience. Brain Science 173 features host Dr. Ginger Campbell reading an excerpt from her bestseller Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty. She explains why this topic is extremely relevant during these times of of extreme uncertainty. In BS 172 we talk with neuroscientistGyörgy Buzsáki about his new book The Brain from Inside Out . Several key ideas emerge including the importance of the brain’s spontaneous activity and the implications for learning and memory. BS 171 is an interview with neuroscientist Matthew Cobb about his latest book The Idea of the Brain. We explore how culture and the history of ideas has influenced the history of neuroscience. We also talk about why the current computer metaphor provides an inadequate framework for understanding what the brain actually does. BS 170 is an interview with Andreas Nieder, author of A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct. We explore the surprising discovery that there appears to be a universal approximate number system that is shared across species and forms the basis for the symbolic mathematics that is unique to humans. BS 169 is an encore presentation of my interview with R. Douglas Fields, author of The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health. Ten years ago these discoveries about glial cells were controversial, but now they are mainstream neuroscience. Listen to learn why glial cells are essential to our health. BS 168is an interview with psychologistCecilia Heyesfrom Oxford University in the UK. We talk about her fascinating book "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking." Our focus is on exploring the evidence that several cognitive skills that appear to be unique to humans are learned from other people rather than being inherited genetically as is often assumed. The proposal that language is a cognitive gadget NOT a cognitive instinct is controversial and has very important implications.

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