Best Connectomics Podcasts (2024)

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#50: Andreas Horn – Toward Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation 1:16:06

21d ago1:16:06

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When I interviewed Marwan Hariz for episode #4, he wrote in an email: "When you finish the series and all interviews, please let me know because then I should interview you as the Grand Finale of this series…". Throughout the recordings, I heard similar remarks from other guests but also, increasingly, from listeners of the show. After Nico Dosenba…

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#51: Alfonso Fasano & Benjamin Stecher – A Unique Collaboration Between a Patient and his Doctor 1:45:40

4d ago1:45:40

1:45:40

In this very special episode, we are thrilled to welcome back Ben Stecher, marking his remarkable third appearance on StimBrains (you can find him previously featured on episodes #12 and #14). Today’s discussion takes a profound turn as we delve into the unique collaboration between Ben and his neurologist Dr. Alfanso Fasano, who is a Professor in …

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BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted 1:43:34

15d ago1:43:34

1:43:34

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. Today we discuss topics from her new book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience. She largely argues that when we try to understand something complex, like the brain,…

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#49: Dora Hermes & Kai Miller – Discovering the secrets of invasive stimulation signal recording. 1:46:20

28d ago1:46:20

1:46:20

Dora Hermes and Kai Miller are associate professors at Mayo Clinic, where they have become a powerhouse on neuroscience, due to their strong collaboration and work in neural signal processing and analysis. Dora has a mathematics background, while Kai studied physics, including a PhD in physics, before becoming a functional neurosurgeon. Last year, …

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#48: Binith Cheeran: From Clinical Neurology to Industry Leader 1:25:12

1M ago1:25:12

1:25:12

In our ongoing exploration of the DBS ecosystem throughout the podcast, we've engaged with leading voices in academia, clinical practice, and the patient community, each offering invaluable perspectives on the transformative impact of DBS. Yet, the journey from laboratory to bedside is a collaborative endeavor that requires another critical player:…

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BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior 1:44:50

1M ago1:44:50

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. As some of you know, I recently got back into the research world, and in particular I work in Eric Yttris' lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Eric's lab studies the relationship between various kinds of behaviors and the neural activity in a few areas known to be involved in enac…

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#47: Marwan Hariz & Joachim Krauss – Toward a third wave of pallidotomies? 2:14:41

2M ago2:14:41

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Marwan Hariz and Joachim Krauss need no introduction. First, because they are famous, and second, because they have been on the show, before. In fact, Marwan Hariz is the first to have been on the podcast three times, first, as an early adopter and trustee in episode 3, second, together with Joachim Krauss and Christian Moll in episode 33, and now …

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BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles 1:30:47

2M ago1:30:47

1:30:47

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Peter Stratton is a research scientist at Queensland University of Technology. I was pointed toward Pete by a patreon supporter, who sent me a sort of perspective piece Pete wrote that is the main focus of our conversation, although we also talk about some of his work in particul…

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#46: Todd Langevin – Establishing Deep Brain Stimulation - the industry perspective 1:30:13

2M ago1:30:13

1:30:13

So far, in the podcast, I have been interviewing key opinion leaders from academia and clinical practice, and sometimes individual patients that graciously shared their insights after undergoing DBS. However, beyond patients and clinicians, there is a third component necessary for DBS to be successful, which are our partners in the industry. Withou…

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BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning 1:28:54

2M ago1:28:54

1:28:54

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. You may know my guest as the co-founder of Neuromatch, the excellent online computational neuroscience academy, or as the creator of the Brian spiking neural network simulator, which is freely available. I know him as a spiking neural network practitioner extraordinaire. Dan Good…

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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again 1:25:42

3M ago1:25:42

1:25:42

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today we discuss some topics framed around what he's been working on and thinking about lately. Things like Whether brains actually r…

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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence 1:27:30

4M ago1:27:30

1:27:30

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience By day, Max Bennett is an entrepreneur. He has cofounded and CEO'd multiple AI and technology companies. By many other countless hours, he has studied brain related sciences. Those long hours of research h…

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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding 1:29:27

4M ago1:29:27

1:29:27

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Welcome to another special panel discussion episode. I was recently invited to moderate at discussion amongst 6 people at the annual Aspirational Neuroscience meetup. Aspirational Neuroscience is a nonprofit community run by Kenneth Hayworth. Ken has been on the podcast before on…

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#45: Mac Shine and Paul Cisek - Exploring the evolution, integration and complexities of the brain: basal ganglia, dopamine, and beyond 2:07:47

4M ago2:07:47

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In this special episode of Stimulating Brains, we dive deep into the intricacies of the human brain with two esteemed guests, Mac Shine from Sydney University and Paul Cisek from the University of Montreal. Building upon our earlier conversation with Mac in episode 9, this episode sees these brilliant minds sharing their insights on the basal gangl…

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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism 1:39:06

5M ago1:39:06

1:39:06

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Laura Gradowski is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Pluralism is roughly the idea that there is no unified account of any scientific field, that we should be tolerant of and welcom…

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#44 Jennifer Thomas & Michael Stanley - The creative spark: Switching on the inner artist in the face of Parkinson's Disease 1:58:43

5M ago1:58:43

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In this conversation with Jennifer ('Niffy') Thomas and Dr. Michael Stanley, we talk about how Niffy became an artist after undergoing DBS surgery to treat her early onset Parkinson's Disease. Dr. Michael Stanley is a cognitive neurologist at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and has special interest in art and the brain: He studies how lesions or oth…

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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions 1:35:31

5M ago1:35:31

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Eric Shea-Brown is a theoretical neuroscientist and principle investigator of the working group on neural dynamics at the University of Washington. In this episode, we talk a lot about dynamics and dimensi…

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BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel 1:13:54

6M ago1:13:54

1:13:54

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. I was recently invited to moderate a panel at the Annual Bernstein conference - this one was in Berlin Germany. The panel I moderated was at a satellite workshop at the conference called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience? Below are…

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#43 Vanessa Milanese - Bridging Anatomy and Neurosurgery: A Deep Dive into White Matter Dissections and Legacy of Dr. Al Rhoton 1:28:45

6M ago1:28:45

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In this conversation with Dr. Vanessa Milanese, we cover the importance of anatomy in neurosurgery and explore her intriguing work in both fields – and how they cross-informed one another. Vanessa is a functional neurosurgeon at A Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil and holds an adjunct assistant professorship of neurosurgery at M…

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BI 176 David Poeppel Returns 1:23:57

6M ago1:23:57

1:23:57

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at NYU, where they stud`y auditory cognition, speech perception, language, and music. On the heels of the episode with David Glanzman, we discuss the ongoing mystery regarding how memory works, how to study and think about brains and minds, and the reemergence …

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#42: Kullervo Hynynen – A conversation with the inventor of MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound 1:14:45

6M ago1:14:45

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kullervo Hynynen, a key figure in biomedical ultrasound and image-guided therapeutics. Starting from his academic roots at the University of Aberdeen to his current roles at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto, Dr. Hynynen has played an instrumental role in advancing medical imaging.…

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#41: Christelle Baunez – The role of the subthalamic nucleus in brain stimulation 2:00:58

6M ago2:00:58

2:00:58

In this intriguing dialogue with Dr. Christelle Baunez, a neurobiologist at Aix-Marseille University, we discuss a mysterious and small structure, the subthalamic nucleus. Christelle is known as the STN woman in France, due to her dedication to study this structure over the years. Christelle is a pioneer in the side effects related to STN stimulati…

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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents 1:46:32

7M ago1:46:32

1:46:32

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Kevin Mitchell is professor of genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He's been on the podcast before, and we talked a little about his previous book, Innate – How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. …

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#40: Casey Halpern – Novel indications and approaches to invasive neuromodulation and neuroscience 1:55:20

7M ago1:55:20

1:55:20

In this engaging conversation with Casey Halpern, a functional neurosurgeon at Penn Medicine. Casey is a pioneer in both deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound and with his lab has recently had some fantastic breakthroughs, especially, but not exclusively in the field of loss-of-control eating in severe obesity. We cover a lot of ground from…

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#39: Nico Dosenbach – A BOLD Challenge to Penfield’s Homunculus based on resting-state fMRI 2:06:32

7M ago2:06:32

2:06:32

In this engaging conversation with Dr. Nico Dosenbach, a clinician-scientist at Washington University, we dive into his personal journey from the Black Forest in Germany to his adventures in the US. Nico generously shared insights into his educational and career path, recounting his experiences studying biochemistry in New York City, making the dec…

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BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything 1:45:00

7M ago1:45:00

1:45:00

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Alicia Juarrero is a philosopher and has been interested in complexity since before it was cool. In this episode, we discuss many of the topics and ideas in her new book, Context Changes Everything: How Co…

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#10 - Mark is interviewed by Stephen about digital hugs and digital tact. 1:23:40

7M ago1:23:40

1:23:40

This episode of the podcast is a little different and is a co-production between Connectomics, and Stephen Estelle's Estelle Ingenuity podcast. This time Stephen sits in the interviewer's chair and Mark is the interviewee. Stephen wanted to talk to Mark about a new paper of his that got some publicity online. The paper was called Do Digital Hugs Wo…

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#38: Espen Dietrichs – about Carl Sem-Jacobsen, the true inventor of subthalamic DBS in Norway 50:59

7M ago50:59

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In this conversation with Espen Dietrichs, we talk about the work of Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen, who almost certainly applied deep brain stimulation to the subthalamic nucleus chronically over weeks in 1958. Notably, this was ~40 years before the application of subthalamic DBS in Grenoble by the team of Alim Louis Benabid & Pierre Pollak (episode 4)…

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BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence 1:35:45

8M ago1:35:45

1:35:45

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. In the intro, I mention the Bernstein conference workshop I'll participate in, called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience?. Follow that link to learn more, and register for the conference here. Hope to see you there in late September…

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#37: Jon Nelson – DBS for Depression saved my life: Defying Stigma in Mental Health 1:50:41

8M ago1:50:41

1:50:41

In this compelling episode we delve into the inspiring story of Jon Nelson, a remarkable individual who has braved the depths of mental illness and emerged as a beacon of resilience and hope. In a heartfelt conversation with Jon, he shares his lived experience with DBS device as a transformative treatment for mental illness. Against the backdrop of…

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BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down 1:30:58

8M ago1:30:58

1:30:58

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at UCLA where he's also a distinguished professor. David used to believe what is currently the mainstream view, that our memories are stored in our synapses, those connections between our neurons. So as we learn, the synaptic connections strengthen and weaken u…

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#36: Béchir Jarraya & Jordy Tasserie – Unlocking Consciousness: Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback, and the Future of Brain Science 1:43:39

8M ago1:43:39

1:43:39

In this episode, we delve into the groundbreaking work of the Neuromodulation Lab at the NeuroSpin center, led by Dr. Béchir Jarraya. The lab’s mission is to evaluate brain modulation using pharmacological agents and electrical neurostimulation. Combining functional MRI with new neuromodulation techniques, they train awake macaques, with a unique m…

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BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition 1:24:40

9M ago1:24:40

1:24:40

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest is Michael C. Frank, better known as Mike Frank, who runs the Language and Cognition lab at Stanford. Mike's main interests center on how children learn language - in particular he focuses a lot o…

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BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab 1:17:15

9M ago1:17:15

1:17:15

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience In this episode I have a casual chat with Ali Mohebi about his new faculty position and his plans for the future. Ali's website. Twitter: @mohebialBy Paul Middlebrooks

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Ep. 6: The Connectome with Dr. Michael Tadross 1:32:21

10M ago1:32:21

1:32:21

In today’s episode, I review the neuroscience behind the Connectome. Using material presented in Brain Facts published by the Society for Neuroscience, I talk about how our neurons communicate with one another, and how our brain is able to encode information to interpret, process, and respond to the different stimuli in our environment. My guest is…

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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language 1:41:30

10M ago1:41:30

1:41:30

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest today is Andrea Martin, who is the Research Group Leader in the department of Language and Computation in Neural Systems at the Max Plank Institute and the Donders Institute. Andrea is deeply inte…

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#35: Mark Richardson – Surfing the Frontiers of Functional Neurosurgery: From Brain Modulation to Patient Engagement 1:13:04

10M ago1:13:04

1:13:04

In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Mark Richardson, an expert in functional neurosurgery and the Director of the Brain Modulation Lab at MGH Neurosurgery. He shared insights into his career and the lab's focus on improving surgical treatments for epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric diseases through a systems neuroscience approach. We dis…

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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness 1:54:42

11M ago1:54:42

1:54:42

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower o…

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BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites 1:27:43

11M ago1:27:43

1:27:43

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Panayiota Poirazi runs the Poirazi Lab at the FORTH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and Yiota loves dendrites, those branching tree-like structures sticking out of all your neurons, and s…

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BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality 1:27:12

11M ago1:27:12

1:27:12

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Nick Enfield is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. In this episode we discuss topics in his most recent book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scienti…

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#34: Charles Jennings – From Graduate School to Founding Editor of Nature Neuroscience and Beyond 1:11:21

11M ago1:11:21

1:11:21

We had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Charles Jennings, an accomplished scientist and leader in the field of neuroscience. As the Executive Director of the Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Disease, Dr. Jennings oversees a vast network of researchers and clinicians who are dedicated to advancing …

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#9 - Andrea Hiott on cognition as navigation or way-making 1:50:06

12M ago1:50:06

1:50:06

In episode #9 of the Connectomics podcast, Mark sits down with neuroscientist and philosopher Andrea Hiott. They talk about Andrea's work in providing a new metaphor for understanding cognition: cognition as navigation or way-making. As well as exploring what exactly is meant by the claim that cognition is way-making, they explore how this intersec…

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#33: Joachim Krauss, Marwan Hariz, & Christian Moll – The History of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Serendipity 1:38:39

12M ago1:38:39

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Join us for an illuminating conversation with Drs. Joachim Krauss, Marwan Hariz, and Christian Moll, as we delve into the history of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and the impact of serendipity in driving discovery. In the first part of the episode, we explore the fascinating history of Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery, discussing th…

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BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect 1:38:45

1y ago1:38:45

1:38:45

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jeffrey Bowers is a psychologist and professor at the University of Bristol. As you know, many of my previous guests are in the business of comparing brain activity to the activity of units in artificial n…

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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought 1:31:54

1y ago1:31:54

1:31:54

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studies how language and cognition are related. In some ways, this is a continuation of the conversation I had last episode wit…

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Your Future Self Will Thank You | Connectomics Part II 1:00:56

1y ago1:00:56

1:00:56

We’re back with Part II of our two-part series on Connectomics! In part one we speculated on the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies in the connectomics field. In part two, we don our lab coats and take a deep dive into the latest research tools, from fixation protocols for the preservation of neural tissue, to multimodal imagin…

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BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model 1:21:34

1y ago1:21:34

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ellie Pavlick runs her Language Understanding and Representation Lab at Brown University, where she studies lots of topics related to language. In AI, large language models, sometimes called foundation mod…

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We're in Heated Agreement Over Here | Connectomics Part I 49:05

1y ago49:05

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Welcome back to Neurotech Pub! In this first installment of two episodes on Connectomics, host and Paradromics CEO Matt Angle kicks off a lively discussion on the rapidly accelerating research in the mapping, preservation, and reconstruction of the human connectome. We explore the ethical and legal ramifications of disruptive technology, and some o…

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BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property 1:23:27

1y ago1:23:27

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Earl Miller runs the Miller Lab at MIT, where he studies how our brains carry out our executive functions, like working memory, attention, and decision-making. In particular he is interested in the role of…

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BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition 1:34:38

1y ago1:34:38

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Hugo Spiers runs the Spiers Lab at University College London. In general Hugo is interested in understanding spatial cognition, like navigation, in relation to other processes like planning and goal-relate…

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