Guest Interviews

The Brain Science Podcast provides a unique opportunity for scientists and writers to discuss their work and ideas in depth. Here is a list of the guests who have been interviewed. This list is updated once a month. Check the Show Notes for more recent guests.

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Michael Arbib, PhD: The role of mirror neurons in imitation and language; Episode 39.
Dan Ariely, Phd: Author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, was a guest on Books and Ideas #19.
David Bainbridge, PhD: Author of Teenagers: A Natural History; Episode 63.
Sian Beilock, PhD: Author of Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To; Episode 76.
Fabrizio Benedetti, MD: Author of Placebo Effects and The Patient's Brain; Episode 77.
Benjamin Bergen, PhD: Author of Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning; Episode 94.
Sandra Blakeslee: Co-author of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better; Episode 23.
Louann Brizendine MD: Author of The Female Brain; Episode 20.
Stuart Brown, MD: Author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul; Episode 60.
Warren Brown, PhD: Co-author of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will; Episode 62.
Robert A Burton, MD: Author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not; Episode 43: Author of A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves; Episode 96
György Buzsáki, PhD: Author of Rhythms of the Brain; Episode 31.
Guy Caldwell, PhD: Discusses the use of C. Elegans and offers guidance to future scientists. Episode 59.
Patricia Churchland, PhD: Author of Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy; Episode 55. In Episode 81 Dr. Churchland returned to talk about her book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality.
Terrence Deacon, PhD: Author of Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter; Books & Ideas Episode 47.
Norman Doidge, MD: Author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science; Episode 26.
Greg Downey, PhD: Author of The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology. Episode 97.
David Eagleman, PhD: Author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain; Episode 75.
R. Douglas Fields, PhD: Author of The Other Brain; Episode 69.
Chris Frith, PhD: Author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World; Episode 57.
Alice Gaby, PhD: Linguistics and its role in neuroscience; Episode 41.
CR Gallistel, PhD: Co-author of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience; Episode 66.
Daniel George: Co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis: Books and Ideas 36.
Arthur Glenberg, PhD: Embodied cognition; Episode 36.
Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD: Author of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind, and, The Wisdom Paradox; Episode 18.
Seth Grant, PhD: Proteomics and the Evolution of the Synapse; Episode 51.
Pamela Greenwood, PhD: Co-Author of Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind; Episode 87.
Jeff Hawkins: Author of On Intelligence; Episode 38.
Rachel Herz, PhD: Author of The Scent of Desire: Discovering our Enigmatic Sense of Smell; Episode 34; and That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion; Episode 86.
Bruce Hood, PhD: Author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable; Books and Ideas 34; The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity; Episode 88.
Allan Jones, PhD: Talked about the brain mapping projects at The Allen Institute for Brain Research; Episode 61.
Shella Keilholz, PhD: Talked about brain imaging in Episode 46. (Recorded live at Dragon*Con 2008)
Christof Koch, PhD: Author of The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach; Episode 22. In Episode 84 Dr. Koch returned to talk about his book, Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist.
Daniel H. Lende, PhD: Author of The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology. Episode 97.
Scott Lilienfeld, PhD: Co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior; Episode 70.
Gary Lynch, PhD: Author of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; Episode 48.
Stephen Macknik, PhD: Co-author of Sleights of Mind; Episode 72.
Eve Marder, PhD: Pioneer researcher of neural circuits; Episode 56.
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD: Co-author of Sleights of Mind; Episode 72.
John Medina, PhD: Author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School; Episode 37.
Michael Merzenich, PhD: Pioneered the study of brain plasticity; Episode 54.
Thomas Metzinger, PhD: Author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self; Episode 67.
Brenda Milner, PhD: Pioneering neuroscientist; Episode 49.
Read Montague, PhD: Author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions; Episode 15.
Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD: Author of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives, Episode 79.
Alva Noë, PhD: Author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, Episode 58.
Jaak Panksepp, PhD: Author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions; Episode 65; The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion; Episode 91.
Rolf Pfiefer, PhD: Author of How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence; Episode 25.
John J Ratey, MD: Author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain; Episode 33. In Episode 45 Dr. Ratey returned to talk about ADD.
Jason Schneiderman, PhD: Talks about brain imaging; Episode 46.
Sebastian Seung, PhD: Author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are; Episode 85.
Stuart Shanker, PhD: How the study of communication among bonobos provides clues about the role of emotional signaling in the evolution of language; Episode 7.
Lawrence Shapiro, PhD: Author of Embodied Cognition; Episode 73.
Daniel J Siegel, MD: Meditation and the Brain; Episode 44.
Olaf Sporns, PhD: Author of Networks of the Brain; Episode 74.
Edward Taub, PhD: Revolutionary approach to stroke rehabilitation; Episode 28.
Evan Thompson, PhD: Author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind; Episode 89.
William Uttal, PhD: Author of Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Episode 83.
Peter Whitehouse, MD: Co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s; Episode 68.
Maryanne Wolf, PhD: Author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain; Episode 29.

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