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This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains how tools from molecular biology make it possible to use the famous C. Elegans roundworm to improve our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Caldwell will return to Brain Science next month to give us an update on his work.

BS 204 Molecular Biologist Guy Caldwell

Ginger Campbell, MD

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This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing highlights and key ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that were posted in 2022. Topics included hearing, grief, emotion, embodied cognition, consciousness and more. Another highlight of 2022 was Dr. Campbell’s induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame.

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BS 203: Sixteenth Annual Review Episode

Ginger Campbell, MD

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2022 Episodes of Brain Science:

• BS 192 Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

• BS 193 The Embodied Mind: exploring the implications of embodied cognition

• BS 194 Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

• BS 195 David J Anderson, author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

• BS 196 Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

• BS 197 Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies

•  BS 198 Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

• BS 199 Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

• BS 200 Jennifer Fugate and Sheila Macrine, editors of Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning

• BS 201 Bill Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built

• BS 202 Evan Thompson, on meditation and embodied cognition

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. We explore how the human brain develops from the fertilized egg up until birth. There are some surprises along the way, including the fact that we actually have more neurons before we are born than we will ever have again!

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BS 201: How the Human Brain is Built with Bill Harris

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This month's episode of Brain Science (BS 200) is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning. We explore how embodied cognition challenges long standing dualist approaches to both cognition and learning. Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate also share some of the innovative approaches that improve both how we teach and how we learn.

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Embodied Cognition:

• BS 193 What does it mean to say the Mind is Embodied?

• BS 198 Encore of interview with Evan Thompson

BS 200 Embodied Cognition in Education and Learning

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. This is an important book because it describes the evidence that Emotions are not just something people experience "from the inside out," but they also occur between people, which means that culture plays a critical role. We also explore why it is important to appreciate why people from from different cultures may experience emotions in surprisingly different ways.

BS 199: Batja Mesquita: Emotion and Culture

Ginger Campbell, MD

Links and References:

• Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions by Batja Mesquita

• Follow her on Twitter: @batjamesquita

• Learn More about Emotion:

  • BS 135 with Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made: The New Science of the Mind and Brain

  • BS 134 with Jaak Panksepp, pioneer of Affective Neuroscience

  • BS 151 discussion of discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis, by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson

  • BS 195 with David J Anderson author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

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This month's episode of Brain Science is a free encore playing of my interview with Evan Thompson about his book Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. We discuss how the enactive approach to embodied cognition offers potential clues to the mystery of how the brain can generate Consciousness. A free episode transcript is also available.

The embodied cognition movement is an approach within cognitive neuroscience that includes philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists and computer scientists. The key idea is that cognition, which includes thinking and decision-making, is inseparable from embodiment. This is not just because it requires sensory inputs to the brain, but also because moving in the world is a key component. Thus embodied cognition does not see this as a passive input/output process, but as something that requires constant interaction with the world via the body.

This is the 2nd of two free encore episodes that are being shared to give listeners a taste of the diverse content available to Premium subscribers. Premium subscribers have access to over 100 additional episodes of Brain Science along with episode transcripts.

BS 198: Evan Thompson on Embodied Cognition

Ginger Campbell, MD

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• Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson

• The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch

• Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson (follow-up interview BSP 115)

• Evan Thompson, PhD, University of British Columbia

 Learn more about Embodied Cognition:

• BS 193: What does it mean to say that the Mind is Embodied?

• How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard (My interview with Pfeifer in BSP 25 was my first discussion of embodied cognition

• BSP 36 with Arthur Glenberg also explores embodied cognition

• Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro (interviewed in BSP 73)

• Phenomenology: An Introduction by Stephan Kaufer andAnthony Chemero

  • BSP 123 is an interview with Chemero about embodied cognition and phenomenology.

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This month's episode of Brain Science features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies. It is a great episode for newbies and will be a good review for longtime listeners.

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BS 197: Frank Amthor, author of "Neuroscience for Dummies"

Ginger Campbell, MD

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• Essentials of Modern Neuroscience by Franklin Amthor, W. Anne Burton Theibert, David Standaert, and Erik Roberson

• Neurobiology For Dummies by Frank Amthor

• Neuroscience For Dummies, 2nd Ed. by Frank Amthor

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the brain generates consciousness, but he also introduces something he calls perceptual reality monitoring. 

Although this is a somewhat technical discussion it is accessible to listeners who are new to the neuroscience of consciousness.

BS 196: Hakwan Lau, author of "In Consciousness we Trust"

Ginger Campbell, MD

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Recent Episodes about Consciousness:

• Jon Mallatt, co-author of The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience BS 128.

• Neuroscience of Conscious: an overview episode (BS 160: free mp3)

• Joseph LeDoux, author of The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. BS 161 Free mp3.

• Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. BS 162 Free mp3.

• Christof Koch, author of The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed. BS 163 Free mp3.

• Bernard Baars, creator of global workspace theory (GWT) author of Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity, and collaborator David Edelman; BS 177 Free mp3.

• Bruce Goldstein, author of The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain; BS 180 Free mp3.

• Mark Solms, author The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Origins of Consciousness; BS 184 Free mp3.

• Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness; BS 188 Free mp3

• Antonio Damasio, author of Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious; BS 189 Free mp3

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