Brain Science Podcast

Episode 27 is a look back on the first 26 episodes of the Brain Science Podcast.
I look back on some of the main topics that we have explored including memory, consciousness, emotions, decision-making, body maps, and plasticity. Then I talk a little about what I hope to do in the covering year.This episode [...]

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Books and Ideas Podcast #15 is an interview with Robert Schleip, PhD from the University of Ulm in Germany. Dr. Schleip is an experienced practioner of the body work method known as rolfing, but several years ago he went back and earned his PhD in Biology and began a second career as a research [...]

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Yesterday I was notified by Daniel Isaacson, Executive Director of the non-profit Science Education Research website that the Brain Science Podcast has been added to their main link page. In his email he said, “We appreciate the quality of your interviews and choice of guests.”
I hope you will go to their website to check out [...]

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Listen to interview of Dr. Norman Doidge (episode 26)

Episode 26 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (2007). Dr. Doidge and I agree that neuroplasticity is the most important discovery [...]

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On the last episode of the Brain Science Podcast, I promised to list previous episodes that related to the discussion of embodied artificial intelligence. For the sake of those of you who rely on the RSS feed to get the show notes, I am going to list those below. They have also been added to [...]

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