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Interviews with Neuroscientists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience
What makes us who we are?Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our...
A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as something...
In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning...
Neuroscientific evidence increasingly shows that consciousness is a remarkable but explainable function of a machinelike brain. Alan J. McCo...
Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, so...
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces t...
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontier...
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...
The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of bi...
Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, b...
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...
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate act...
With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can...
When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then reaching a consciou...
What's the secret to keeping your balance? The ear does more than hear: it helps us stay stable by perceiving movements and gravity. Elegant...
Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilitie...
There is a hidden addiction plaguing humanity right now: revenge. Researchers have identified retaliation in response to real and imagined g...
The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as...
Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows...
Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researche...
The vagus nerve is fundamental to our health and vitality, coordinating critical functions from the precise heartbeat we need to exercise or...
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening—unless we kno...
How can I help my students not only learn my course material but also retain and transfer that information? This is a question that has plag...
Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Jeremy Stolow is the first book of its kind: an extended historical, anthropolog...
Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's e...
Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today--but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze c...
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Dr...
Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (...
Consciousness Mattering (Bloombury, 2023) presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are re...
Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain (Bloomsbury, 2021) provides a multif...
Parenting is an emotional rollercoaster – filled with moments of joy, stress, and everything in between. But what if there was a scientific...
Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neurosc...
This book is available open access here. The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2024...
Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor docto...
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scient...
Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it's vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of re...
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon,...
This interview is an exception to our “single author monographs” rule, because the edited collection that is its topic is an intellectual ac...
People with dementia are uniquely qualified to discuss the challenges of their condition and the features of effective support, but their vo...
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, p...
In his marvelous new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2023), David Peña-Guzmán (SF State as...
Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Unive...
In Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Dutton Books, 2020), Daniel J. Levitin delivers powerfu...
A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partner...
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scient...
Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a m...
Do newborns think-do they know that 'three' is greater than 'two'? Do they prefer 'right' to 'wrong'? What about emotions--do newborns recog...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and h...
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and...
A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers...