Bibliography

Books featured on the Brain Science Podcast

Here is a list (arranged alphabetically by author) of the books that have been featured on the Brain Science Podcast. Click directly on the title to go to the BSP aStore (Amazon.com) We have also included links to the episode show notes, and to Audible.com (when available). Please consult the show notes for individual episodes for additional references. (NOTE: *indicates episode of Books and Ideas that was included in the BSP feed.)

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• Amthor, Frank, Neurobiology for Dummies and Neuroscience for Dummies; BSP 101.

• Anderson,Michael, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain; BSP 124.

• Ariely, Dan, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (B&I 19*); Audible link.

• Bainbridge, David, Teenagers: A Natural History; BSP Interview; and, Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain; BSP 32, BSP 118.

• Barrett, Lisa, How Emotions Are Made; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Begley, Sharon, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves; BSP 10; Audible link.

• Beilock, Sian, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Benedetti, Fabrizio, Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease, and, The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-Patient Relationship; BSP Interview.

• Bergen, Benjamin, Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning; BSP Interview.

• Blackmore, Susan, Consciousness: An Introduction; BSP 13.

• Blakeslee, Sandra, The Body Has a Mind of its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better; BSP 21; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Brizendine, Louann, The Female Brain; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Brown, Stuart, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorate the Soul; BSP Interview.

• Burnett, Dean, Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why; BSP Episode 149.

• Burton, Robert A., On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not; BSP 42; BSP Interview; and, A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves, BSP Interview.

• Buzsaki, Gyorgy, Rhythms of the Brain; BSP Interview.

• Chemero, Anthony, Phenomenology: An Introduction; BSP Interview.

• Churchland, Patricia, Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy; and, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain; BSP Interview; and, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Clark, Andy, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind; BSP Interview.

• Craig, Bud, How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self; BSP Interview.

• Crick, Francis, Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul; BSP 5.

• Damasio, Antonio, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain; BSP 90. Audible link.

• Deacon, Terrence, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter; B&I 47.

• Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained; and, Freedom Evolves; BSP 13.

• Doidge, Norman, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Dowling, John, The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture?; BSP 4.

• Eagleman, David, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Evans, Dylan, Emotion: The Science of Sentiment; BSP 11; Audible link.

• Fernandez, Alvaro, The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age; BSP Interview.

• Fields, R. Douglas, The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Frances, Allen, Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life; BSP Interview.

• Friederici, Angela, Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity; BSP 144.

• Frith, Chris, Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World; BSP Interview.

• Gallistel, Randy, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience; BSP Interview.

• Gazzaniga, Michael, Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain; BSP 82; Audible link; and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience; BSP 117; Audible link.

• George, Daniel, and, Whitehouse, Peter, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis; (B&I 36*); Audible link.

• Gigerenzer, Gerd, Gut Feelings:The Intelligence of the Unconscious; BSP 19; Audible link .

• Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking; BSP 13; Audible link.

• Goldberg, Elkhonon, The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind; BSP 16; The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older; BSP 17; BSP Interview; The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Fitness and Performance at Any Age; BSP 100; Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation; BSP 143.

• Grandin, Temple, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum; BSP 98; BSP Interview.

• Graziano, Michael, Consciousness and the Social Brain; BSP Interview; The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature; BSP 142.

• Greenspan, Stanley, and, Shanker, Stuart, The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans; BSP 6; BSP Interview.

• Greenwood, Pamela M., Nutruing the Older Brain and Mind; BSP Interview.

• Hawkins, Jeff, On Intelligence; BSP 2; BSP 13; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Herculano-Houzel, Suzana, The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable; BSP Interview.

• Herz, Rachel, The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell; BSP Interview; That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Hickok, Greg, The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition. BSP Interview. Audible link.

• Hood, Bruce, Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (B&I 34*) Audible link; The Self Illusion: How The Social Brain Creates Identity' BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Jasanoff, Alan: The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. BSP Interview.

• Johnson, Steven, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life; BSP 1; Audible link.

• Kandel, Eric, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind; BSP 3.

• Kenneally, Christine, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language; BSP 30.

• Koch, Christof, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach; BSP Interview; and Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist; BSP Interview.

• Legrenzi, Paolo, and Umilta, Carlo, Neuromania: On the Limits of Brainscience; BSP 109.

• Lende, Daniel H., and Downey, Greg, The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology, BSP Interview.

• Lewis, Penny, The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest, BSP Interview.

• Lilienfeld, Scott, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior; BSP Interview.

• Lynch, Gary, Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; BSP Interview.

• Macknik, Stephen, and, Martinez-Conde, Susana, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Medina, John, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School; BSP Interview; Audible link; Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Healthy, Vital, and Sharp; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Merzenich, Michael, Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life; BSP Interview.

• Metzinger, Thomas, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Montague, Read, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions; BSP Interview.

• Murphy, Nancey, and, Brown, Warren, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsiblity and Free Will; BSP 53; BSP Interview.

• Nassim, Charlotte, Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience; BS 147 discussion

• Nicholls, John, Martin, A., Wallace, Bruce, and, Fuchs, Paul, From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System; BSP 8.

• Nicolelis, Miguel, Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines--and How It Will Change Our Lives; BSP 78; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Noe, Alva, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Panksepp, Jaak, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions; BSP Interview; The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion; BSP Interview.

• Pessoa, Luiz, The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration; BSP Interview.

• Pfeifer, Rolf, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence; BSP Interview.

• Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron." BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Ratey, John, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain; BSP Interview; Audible link; and, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder From Childhood Through Adulthood; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Rizzolatti, Giacomo, and, Sinigaglia, Corrado, Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience; BSP 35.

• Rose, Nikolas, and Abi-Rached, Joelle, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind; BSP 109.

• Rose, Steven, The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience; BSP 9.

• Satel, Sally, and Lilienfeld, Scott, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience; BSP 109.

• Seidenberg, Mark, Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, And What Can Be Done About It; BSP 136.

• Seung, Sebastian, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Shapiro, Lawrence, Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy); BSP Interview.

• Siegel, Daniel, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being; BSP Interview; Audible link.

• Sporns, Olaf, Networks of the Brain; BSP Interview; and Discovering the Human Connectome, BSP Interview.

• Squire, Larry, and, Kandel, Eric, Memory: From Mind to Molecules; BSP 12.

• Striedter, Georg, Principles of Brain Evolution; BSP 47.

• Tallis, Raymond, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Mankind; BSP 109.

• Thompson, Evan, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind; BSP 89. Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy; BSP 115.

• Uttal, Willliam, Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience; BSP 83.

• Wolf, Maryanne, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain; BSP 24; BSP Interview; Audible link. Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century; BSP 145.