20 Best Cognitive Science Podcasts
Cognitive Science Podcasts
Here are 20 Best Cognitive Science Podcasts worth listening to in 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
Play All Episodes Follow All1. The Psychology Podcast
   
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In each episode, we talk with inspiring scientists, thinkers, and other self-actualized individuals who will give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. Scott Barry Kaufman explores the depths of human potential and tries to get a glimpse into human possibility in every episode.MORE    Host Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman  
 Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts  
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 Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 15.4KTwitter 107.8K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form  Since Nov 2014       Get Email Contact  Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 500k active Podcasts in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted podcast contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com . We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us 
2. Many Minds
   
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Our world is brimming with beings—human, animal, and artificial. We explore how they think, sense, feel, and learn. Conversations and more, every two weeks.   
 Host Kensy Cooperrider  
 Producer/Network Kensy Cooperrider – Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute  
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 Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 1KTwitter 2.2KInstagram 558 Avg Length 80 min Format Long form        Get Email Contact  
3. Brain Inspired
   
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Neuroscience and artificial intelligence work better together. Brain inspired is a celebration and exploration of the ideas driving our progress to understand intelligence. I interview experts about their work at the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and more: the symbiosis of these overlapping fields, how they inform each other, where they differ, what the past brought us, and what the future brings...MORE    Host Paul Middlebrooks  
 Producer/Network Paul Middlebrooks  
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 Apple Rating 4.9/5Twitter 5.3K Avg Length 96 min Format Extended  Since Jul 2018       Get Email Contact  
4. Consciousness Live!
   
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Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge. This is the podcast you listen to after you have listened to all the other podcasts on consciousness!   
 Producer/Network Richard Brown  
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 Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 3.1K Avg Length 117 min Format Extended  Since Sep 2019       Get Email Contact  
5. CogNation
   
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CogNation is a podcast by Rolf Nelson and Joe Hardy, two cognitive psychologists interested in the future of brain science and technology. We explore relevant topics in the areas of cognitive science, technology, AI, and philosophy. Although we dabble with dystopian implications of new technologies (such as the impending robopocalypse), we are led by our curiosity and try to keep it light and fun. https://www.facebook.com/CognationPodcast/ email: cognationpodcast@gmail.comMORE    Host Joe Hardy  
 Producer/Network CogNation Media  
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 Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 129Twitter 46 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form  Since Jan 2019       Get Email Contact  
6. Minding the Brain
   
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Minding the Brain is an award-winning, monthly science podcast by Dr. Jim Davies and Dr. Kim Hellemans. It focuses on exploring and discussing the fascinating topics surrounding the scientific study of the brain. Minding the Brain is brought to you by Carleton University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Find us on the web @ https://mindingthebrainpodcast.comMORE    Hosts Jim Davies, Kim Hellemans  
 Producer/Network Jim Davies & Kim Hellemans  
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 Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 576Twitter 1.1K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form  Since Jan 2018       Get Email Contact  
7. Thinking Clearly
   
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In this age of fake news, alternative facts and information overload, this podcast offers cognitive self-defense strategies and topics that will help you understand and master critical thinking in forming your claims beliefs and opinions.MORE    Host Bob Froehlich  
 Producer/Network Bob Froehlich-Retired Chemist, Counselor, Psychology Professor and Julia Minton-Technology Consultant  
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 Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 297 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form  Since Jul 2017       Get Email Contact  
8. MindStew
   
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The MindStew podcast aims to inspire Australia's psychology, counselling and cognitive science students to become wise and effective practitioners, through conversations with academics and those working in mental health/cognitive science.MORE    Producer/Network Joshua Kugel  
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 Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 58Twitter 67 Avg Length 53 min Format Long form  Since Oct 2018       Get Email Contact  
9. Cognitive Gamer
   
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The Intersection of Psychology and Games   
 Host Dr. Stephen Blessing  
 Producer/Network Stephen Blessing  
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 Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 81Twitter 685 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form        Get Email Contact  
10. 'The Kitchen Table' Presented by The Pacific Institute Canada
   
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The Kitchen Table purpose is to share with you an engaging dialogue that we hope will reveal the dynamic world of cognitive science and it's role it plays in performance. For over four decade your co-host Ron Medved and Gregg Cochlan have work with hundreds of organizations to apply cognitive psychology, science and practices to ignite human and organizational performance.MORE    Hosts Gregg Cochlan, Ron Medved, Dave  
 Producer/Network Gregg Cochlan & Ron Medved  
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 Facebook 6.3KTwitter 1.2K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form        Get Email Contact  
11. Your Brain On... by Salience Learning
   
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Your Brain On... is a podcast by Learning and Development professionals for Learning and Development professionals.Every day, Salience Learning combines the science of learning with expertise in the business of science to help solve the biopharma industry's most complex business challenges.Listen as hosts Karen Foster and Krista Gerhard discuss the latest in cognitive science and learning strategies as they relate to the ever-evolving healthcare industry. In other words: Your Brain On... gives you the tools you need to help your teams achieve success...MORE    Producer/Network Salience Learning  
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 Apple Rating 4.2/5Twitter 441 Avg Length 14 min Format Short form  Since Apr 2020       Get Email Contact  
12. Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
   
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Brain Science is hosted by Virginia 'Ginger' Campbell, MD (Podcast Hall of Fame 2022). She is an experienced physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between. It features interviews and discusses the latest books about the brain.MORE    Host Ginger Campbell  
 Producer/Network Ginger Campbell, MD  
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 Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 18.4KTwitter 4.3K Avg Length 69 min Format Long form  Since Dec 2006       Get Email Contact  
13. Consciousness and the Brain
   
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On Consciousness & the Brain with Bernard Baars are open-minded conversations on new ideas about the scientific study of consciousness and the brain. Join acclaimed author in psychobiology Bernard Baars, originator of Global Workspace Theory (GWT) and one of the founders of the modern science of consciousness, and his guests to discover the conscious brain.MORE    Producer/Network Bernard Baars, PhD | Nautilus Press Publishing Group  
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 Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 3.2KTwitter 2.7KInstagram 136 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form        Get Email Contact  
14. Mind Matters With Mia
   
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Mia Yen is a high school student in Valencia, California with a passion for cognitive science, psychology, and mental health. In these short episodes, she will be sitting down with experts across the country to discuss these topics while relating it to a teenage level. Stay tuned for a new series where Mia will talk to teens and young adults in the community about their personal mental health stories!MORE    Producer/Network Mia Yen  
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 Apple Rating 5/5Instagram 269 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form  Since Apr 2020       Get Email Contact  
15. THE COGNITIVE RAMPAGE
   
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Welcome to the Cognitive Rampage Podcast. The exploratory podcast pushing you to question yourself and everything else. Making you think with cerebral guests, and offering hardcore mental health help.I'm your host Adam Lowery. I have published two books, appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, MSNBC, NASDAQ Live, NBC, multiple podcasts and radio shows. I am a retired nightclub connoisseur and drug dealer turned retired Mental Health Therapist turned Author, Podcaster, CEO, Comedy Club Owner and Comedy Host. I hold both, B.A. and B.S...MORE    Producer/Network The Cognitive Rampage  
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 Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 3.4KTwitter 2.8KInstagram 1.3K Avg Length 57 min Format Long form  Since Aug 2015       Get Email Contact  
16. Journal Entries
   
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Go behind the scenes with philosophers and cognitive scientists to get their take on published journal articles, what they like about papers, what they maybe don't anymore, and where inquiry should take us next.MORE    Producer/Network Wesley Buckwalter  
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 Apple Rating 4.5/5Twitter 2.8K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form  Since Apr 2020       Get Email Contact  
17. Not Daily Podcast
   
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We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.MORE    Producer/Network Not Daily Podcast  
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 Avg Length 41 min Format Long form  Since Jan 2019       Get Email Contact  
Cognitive Science shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | |
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| Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman | Host | omny.fm/shows/the-psychology-podcast | 13 | @sbkaufman | 107.8K | |
| Kensy Cooperrider | Host | disi.org/manyminds | 18 | @kensycoop | 2.3K | |
| Urte Laukaityte | Producer | disi.org/manyminds | 18 | |||
| Paul Middlebrooks | Host | braininspired.co/podcast | @pgmid | |||
| Joe Hardy | Host | cognation.fireside.fm | 2 | @jlhardyphd | ||
| Jim Davies | Co Host | mindingthebrainpodcast.com | 6 | @drjimdavies | 1.1K | |
| Kim Hellemans | Co Host | mindingthebrainpodcast.com | 6 | @mindingthebrain | 5.5K | |
| Bob Froehlich | Host | thinkingclearly.libsyn.com | 8 | |||
| Dr. Stephen Blessing | Host | cognitivegamer.com/podcast | 28 | @cognitive_gamer | 685 | |
| Gregg Cochlan | Co Host | buzzsprout.com/90030 | 4 | |||
| Ron Medved | Co Host | buzzsprout.com/90030 | 4 | |||
| Dave | Co Host | buzzsprout.com/90030 | 4 | |||
| Ginger Campbell | Host | brainsciencepodcast.libsyn.com | 1 | @docartemis | 4.3K | |
| Mia Yen | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindmatterswithmia | 25 | ||||
| Paul Middlebrooks | braininspired.co/podcast | 14 | ||||
| Salience Learning | saliencelearning.com/insights | 3 | @SalienceLearn | |||
| Nick Byrd | byrdnick.com/blog | 2 | 
See Also
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