Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for Brain Inspired email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episode is ...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 52 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Check out this story: What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory? Sign up f...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Check out this series of essays about representations: What are we talking about? Clarifying the f...
Jun 04, 2025•2 hr 7 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for Brain Inspired email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episode is ...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for Brain Inspired email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episode is ...
May 07, 2025•2 hr
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Dean Buonomano runs the Buonomano lab at UCLA. Dean was a guest on Brain Inspired way back on episode 18, where we talked about his book Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time , which details much of his thought and research about how centrally important time is for virtually everything we do, different conceptions of time in philosophy, and how how brains might tell time. That was a...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 51 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology . Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and much of her focus is on neurons. We discuss her theoretical work building a new kind of single neuron model. She, like Dmitri Chklovskii a few episod...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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Mar 05, 2025•7 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Ciara Greene is Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Psychology. In this episode we discuss Ciara's book Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember , co-authored by her colleague Gillian Murphy. The book is all about how human episodic memory works and why it works the way it does. Contrary to our common assumption, a "good memory" isn't necessarily highly accurate - we don'...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episo...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Today I'm in conversation with Rajesh Rao, a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he also co-directs the Center for Neurotechnology. Back in 1999, Raj and Dana Ballard published what became quite a famous paper , which proposed how predictive coding might be implemented in brains. What is predictive coding, you may be wondering? It's roughly the idea...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop . You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative, but in case not, BRAIN is is huge funding effort across many agencies, one of which is the National Institutes of Health, where this recent workshop was held. The BRAIN Initiative began in 2013 under the Obama administration, with the goal to support developi...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” epi...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. This is the second conversation I had while teamed up with Gaute Einevoll at a workshop on NeuroAI in Norway. In this episode, Gaute...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. This is the first of two less usual episodes. I was recently in Norway at a NeuroAI workshop called Validating models: How would suc...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . https://youtu.be/lbKEOdbeqHo The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. The Transmitter has provided a transcript for this episode. Vijay Namoodiri runs the Nam Lab at the Uni...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership . Check out this story: Monkeys build mental maps to navigate new tasks Sign up for “Brain Inspired”...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Àlex Gómez-Marín heads The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. He's one of those theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist, and he has studied a wide range of topics over his career. Most recently, he has become interested in what he calls the "edges of consciousness", which encompasses the many trying to explain what may be happening when we have experiences ...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Damian Kelty-Stephen is an experimental psychologist at State University of New York at New Paltz. Last episode with Luis Favela, we discussed many of the ideas from ecological psychology, and how Louie is trying to reconcile those principles with those of neuroscience. In this episode, Damian and I in some ways continue that discussion, because Damian is also interested in unifying principles of ecological psy...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Luis Favela is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. He is part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part many things, and on this episode we discuss his new book, The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment . In the book, Louie presents his NeuroEcological Nexus Theory, or NExT, which, as the subtitle says, proposes a way forward to tie together our brains,...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Jovo, as you'll learn, is theoretically oriented, and enjoys the formalism of mathematics to approach questions that begin with a sense of wonder. So after I learn more about his overall approach, the first topic we discuss is the world's currently largest map of an entire brain... the connectome of an insect, the fruit fly. We talk about his role in this collaborative effort, what the heck a connectome is, why...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Jolande Fooken is a post-postdoctoral researcher interested in how we move our eyes and move our hands together to accomplish naturalistic tasks. Hand-eye coordination is one of those things that sounds simple and we do it all the time to make meals for our children day in, and day out, and day in, and day out. But it becomes way less seemingly simple as soon as you learn how we make various kinds of eye moveme...
May 27, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Recently I was invited to moderate a panel at the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience, or COSYNE, conference. This year was the 20th anniversary of COSYNE, and we were in Lisbon Porturgal. The panel goal was to discuss the relationship between neuroscience and AI. The panelists were Tony Zador, Alex Pouget, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Kim Stachenfeld, Jonathan Pillow, and Eva Dyer. And I'll let them introd...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 4 min
