Brain Science is the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brains make us human. It is time for our 14th Annual Review episode and despite the challenges of 2020, it has been an outstanding year for new content and the show passed 11 million downloads. The second edition Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Dr. Ginger Campbell hit number 1 in new releases on Amazon back in June, thanks to listener support.

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Here is a list of this year's episodes:

• BS 165 (encore) Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, authors of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

• BS 166 Stephen Macknik describes new a visual prosthesis

• BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene, author of How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

• BS 168 Cecelia Heyes, author of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

• BS 169 (encore) R. Douglas Fields The Other Brain

• BS 170 Andreas Nieder, author of The Number Instinct

• BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

• BS 172 György Buzsáki, author of The Brain from Inside Out

• BS 173 Excerpt from Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell

• BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem

• BS 175 Carol Tavris, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)- an exploration of cognitive dissonance

• BS 176 Seth Grant explains synapse complexity

• BS 177 Bernard Baars and David Edelman talk about consciousness

• BS 178 Peter Sterling, author of What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design

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