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Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate, "Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems" (MIT Press, 2026)

Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems (MIT Press, 2026) explores a radical transf...

00:48:06Sep 16, 2026

Mark Solms, "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" (Pegasus, 2026)

Once dismissed as unscientific, psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind - outperform...

01:04:14Aug 14, 2026

The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez

Today I’m speaking with neuroscientist Stave Ramirez about bullshit and memory. Steve is an associate professor at Boston University, where...

0Jul 30, 2026

Amy Brann, "Make Your Brain Work: Perform at a Higher Level" (Kogan Page, 2025)

Make Your Brain Work By Amy Brann Neuroscience expert, author, consultant and global speaker Make Your Brain Work: Perform at a Higher Level...

53:24Jul 25, 2026

Great Minds in Despair

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Frank Stahnisch, Professor of the History of Medicine and Hea...

45:39Jun 17, 2026

Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026)

How Deeply Human Is Language? Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press, 2026) is Yosef Grodzinsky’s exploration of the criticality...

51:21May 24, 2026

Samuel Markind, "Music Between Your Ears: How Musical Engagement Powers the Human Brain" (JHU Press, 2025)

Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being. IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music Category Why d...

58:58May 24, 2026

Alexander Klein, "Consciousness is Motor: William James on Mind and Action" (Oxford UP, 2025)

When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the...

66:20May 10, 2026

Masud Husain, "Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain" (Canongate, 2025)

What makes us who we are?Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our...

58:40Apr 22, 2026

Adam Zeman, "The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as something...

68:57Apr 8, 2026

167* Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)

In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning...

46:53Mar 26, 2026

Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)

Neuroscientific evidence increasingly shows that consciousness is a remarkable but explainable function of a machinelike brain. Alan J. McCo...

63:10Feb 27, 2026

Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, so...

62:35Feb 6, 2026

Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces t...

53:20Feb 1, 2026

Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontier...

50:49Jan 19, 2026

Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)

What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fi...

30:38Jan 18, 2026

Rafael Yuste, "Lectures in Neuroscience" (Columbia UP, 2023)

The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of bi...

61:53Jan 16, 2026

Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, b...

33:54Jan 8, 2026

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe. Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a con...

44:47Jan 8, 2026

Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate act...

32:26Jan 1, 2026