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Neuroscience
Interviews with neuroscientists about their new books
July 21, 2024
On Task
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this sh…
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…
June 10, 2024
The Reality of Scientific Research
In this episode we speak with Dr. John W. Cave, a scientist and thought leader who has been in the research world for over 20 years. Dr. Cave has wor…
June 8, 2024
Do I Know You?
In Do I Know You? From Faceblindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Dr. Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category…
May 10, 2024
The Ecological Brain
Ecological psychology holds that perception and action are best explained in terms of dynamic interactions between brain, body, and environment, not i…
April 30, 2024
Memory Makes the Brain
If you're interested in memory, you'll find a lot in Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains…
April 27, 2024
Why We Remember
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters…
April 24, 2024
The Political Brain
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University) to dis…
April 15, 2024
Toxic Stress
Our stress response system is magnificent - it operates beneath our awareness, like an orchestra of organs playing a hidden symphony. When we are heal…
April 1, 2024
A Brief History of Intelligence
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Mariner Books, 2023) tells two fascinating stories. O…
March 8, 2024
Mapping the Darkness
Why do we sleep? How can we improve our sleep? A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn …
March 6, 2024
The Elephant and the Blind
What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the ess…
February 23, 2024
The Brain in Motion
C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) sh…
February 22, 2024
Look Again
Today’s book is: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein, a b…
February 10, 2024
Irresistible
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to D…
January 20, 2024
A Mind for Language
How does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is learned? How do these factors interact? The questions s…
December 16, 2023
Every Brain Needs Music
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or …
December 6, 2023
How to Count Animals, More Or Less
Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussi…
December 1, 2023
How We Age
All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age: The Science of Longevity (Princeton UP, 2023), Coleen …