BS 179 14th Annual Review Episode
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Brain Science, this podcast where we explore how discoveries in |
| 0:08.4 | neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. I'm your host Dr. |
| 0:14.6 | Ginger Campbell and this is episode 179. If you're curious about how your brain |
| 0:21.0 | really works, this is the podcast for you. Today's episode is our |
| 0:26.0 | 14th annual review episode, but before I get started I want to remind you that |
| 0:32.3 | you can find complete show notes and episode transcripts at |
| 0:35.2 | brainscience podcast.com. Brain Sciences produced independently and relies on the financial |
| 0:41.6 | support of listeners like you. |
| 0:43.7 | To learn more, please visit brainscience podcast.com |
| 0:47.4 | forward slash donations. |
| 0:49.4 | Please send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail.com. You can get our free |
| 0:56.3 | newsletter by texting the word brain science all one word to 5544 |
| 1:04.1 | brain science to 55444 |
| 1:08.6 | there's also a link to the newsletter in the show notes |
| 1:11.6 | I think we all agree that 2020 has been a very strange year. |
| 1:16.3 | So I feel fortunate that I was able to release 14 episodes, including 12 entirely new ones, which is the most since 2008. |
| 1:25.0 | Of the 14 guests that appeared this year, |
| 1:29.0 | seven were brand new, |
| 1:31.0 | while Dr. Seth Grant made his record fifth appearance. I do this |
| 1:35.8 | review every year because it gives us a chance to reflect on what we've learned |
| 1:39.6 | together and I enjoy tying together the ideas from different guests and their work. |
| 1:45.0 | If you're new to brain science, it's not necessary to go back and listen to these episodes first. |
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