Guests who have been on the Brain Science Podcast

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 complete through June 13, 2008.

• Michael Arbib, PhD: The role of mirror neurons in imitation and language; Episode 39.
• 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.
• Louanne Brizendine MD: author of The Female Brain; Episode 20.
• György Buzsáki, PhD: author of Rhythms of the Brain; Episode 31. (Interview Transcript)
  
• Norman Doidge, MD: author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science; Episode 26.
• 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.
• 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.
• Christof Koch, PhD: author of The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach; Episode 22. Interview transcript: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg8sf6hf_33z9z29kfm
  
• John Medina, PhD: author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School; Episode 37.
• Read Montague, PhD: author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions; Episode 15.
• 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.
• 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.
• Edward Taub, PhD: revolutionary approach to stroke rehabilitation; Episode 28.
• Maryanne Wolf, PhD: author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain; Episode 29.

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Tagged as: Arthur Glenberg, Christof Koch, Edward Taub, Elkhonon Goldberg, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Jeff Hawkins, John Ratey, Louanne Brizendine, Maryanne Wolf, Michael Arbib, Norman Doidge, Rachel Herz, Read Montague, Rolf Pfeifer, Sandra Blakeslee, Stuart Shanker