Brains for Dinner: Conversations Between Neuroscientists who Happen to be Married

Chantel Prat and Andrea Stocco•chantelpratphd.substack.com

Chantel Prat and Andrea Stocco are cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Washington whose work-life balance looks a bit different from the norm. Sparks flew when Chantel, a native Californian, and Andrea, a Northern Italian, first met to talk about brains over coffee during their postgraduate training in 2007. Now, after 16 years of marriage and an even longer history of mind-melding research collaborations, their dinner conversations flit from the importance of access to good tacos to ideas for demystifying inner space. Won't you join us for dinner?

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Brains for Dinner Episode 1

We’re so excited to share the first episode of Brains for Dinner (BFD), where we talk about real life and our shared love of brains. This episode is centered on metacognition. Like many of the topics Andrea and I chat about, metacognition is a word that means different things to different people. In this dinner date, Andrea explains the difference between “thinking about thinking” and the kinds of feelings that accompany different thoughts and actions. What can and can’t an AI know? Spoiler aler...

Aug 03, 2025•56 min

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