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Neuroscience August 4, 2021

When Brains Dream

Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra

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In When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep (W. W. Norton, 2021), psychologist Dr. Antonio Zadra and neuroscientist Dr. Robert Stickgold offer a fascinating survey of the biological …
Neuroscience January 19, 2021

Electric Brain

How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better

R. Douglas Fields,

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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 neuroscientist R. Douglas Fields …
Neuroscience September 24, 2020

Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience

Christopher Harris

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Dr. Christopher Harris (@chrisharris) is a neuroscientist, engineer and educator at the EdTech company Backyard Brains. He is principal investigator on an NIH-funded project to develop brain-based robots for neuroscience …
Neuroscience September 17, 2020

The Mind Is Flat

The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

Nick Chater

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Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental “surface” of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex …
Neuroscience September 10, 2020

NeuroScience Fiction

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

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In NeuroScience Fiction (Benbella Books, 2020), Rodrigo Quian Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances …
Neuroscience August 27, 2020

The Brain from Inside Out

György Buzsáki

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