The Other Brain Podcast Episode 169

It's time for our 14th Annual Review Episode! Despite the challenges of 2020, it has been an outstanding year for Brain Science: the show passed 11 million downloads and Dr. Campbell released of second edition of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.

This episode is also a great introduction for new listeners. It can be enjoyed even if you haven’t listened to the episodes being discussed. A free transcript is also available for this episode.

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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