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Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (Norton, 2021)

August 4, 2021

When Brains Dream

Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
Hosted by John Griffiths

In When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep (W. W. Norton, 2021), psychologist Dr. Antonio Zadra and neuroscientist Dr. Robert St…

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)

January 19, 2021

Electric Brain

R. Douglas Fields,
Hosted by John Griffiths

In Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better (BenBella, 2020), eminent …

Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience

September 24, 2020

Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience

Christopher Harris
Hosted by John Griffiths

Dr. Christopher Harris (@chrisharris) is a neuroscientist, engineer and educator at the EdTech company Backyard Brains. He is principal investigator o…

Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)

September 17, 2020

The Mind Is Flat

Nick Chater
Hosted by John Griffiths

Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental “sur…

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)

September 10, 2020

NeuroScience Fiction

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Hosted by John Griffiths

In NeuroScience Fiction (Benbella Books, 2020), Rodrigo Quian Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are bei…

György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)

August 27, 2020

The Brain from Inside Out

György Buzsáki
Hosted by John Griffiths

In The Brain from Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2019), György Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on…