#9 Hugo Merchant: Neuronal population clocks
Hugo works with macaques, who can rhythmically tap their fingers synchronized to a visual or auditory beat.
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Jul 75 min read
How does a marmoset know which vocalizations are his own?
How can an individual correctly determine that the perceived sounds are indeed self-produced, rather than coming from an external source?
Feb 31 min read
Variational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsong
Using the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works.
Dec 13, 20232 min read
#8 Uri Hasson: Language in the real world for brains and AI
(...) However, we ended up talking more about Wittgenstein, evolution, and ChatGPT.
Dec 5, 20232 min read
#7 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents (in an evolving block universe)
Kevin recently published his second book, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will."
Oct 17, 20232 min read
#6 Kate Jeffery: Grid cells in 3D, entropy & climate change
This episode is all about grid cells, which Kate was already recording in the 1990s.
Oct 9, 20232 min read
#5 Bernstein conference 2023: Computational neuroscience posters
Two weeks ago, I visited the Bernstein conference in Berlin. I had lots of fun, particularly at the poster sessions.
Oct 3, 20231 min read
#4 Paul Middlebrooks: BrainInspired & Podcasting
Paul and I met in Berlin, and talked about his journey away from (and back into) academia and why he started his podcast BrainInspired.
Sep 26, 20232 min read
#3 ESI SyNC 2023: Bats, memory & interdisciplinary science
A couple of weeks ago, I visited the ESI SyNC 2023 conference in at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) in Frankfurt, Germany. Their...
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Primer on place, head direction & grid cells
In the Brain Space Time Podcast, I will be talking plenty about place, grid, head direction cells and other cells in the hippocampal zoo.
Aug 18, 20232 min read
#2 Saeedeh Sadeghi & Irena Arslanova: Heart and time perception
If you have ever been in a car accident, you might have felt as if time was slowing down.
Aug 10, 20238 min read
Talking to a crow will be possible in 50 years
“The Dr. Dolittle Challenge - can you build an AI that communicates with animals”? Corvids, neuroscience, and multimodal AI, can handle it.
Jul 10, 20233 min read
#1 Georg Northoff: Spatiotemporal neuroscience
In the first episode of the Brain Space Time Podcast, I talk to Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist and philosopher.
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Welcome to the Brain Space Time Podcast
In this short episode, I give a rough outline of what the Brain Space Time podcast will be about! Timestamps: (00:00) - What is the Brain...
Jan 16, 202313 min read
Brain-body size divergence in birds: An evolutionary, morphological and ecological case
Named after Edward Cope, Cope’s rule states that species in mammalian clades tend to increase in size over the Cenozoic era (Hone and Benton
Dec 1, 20227 min read
Understanding religious violence beyond the 'modernity-religion' dichotomy
When trying to understand religious violence, Western media often adopts a substantive and private conceptualization of religion.
Nov 16, 20222 min read
#7 Tony Zador: The Embodied Turing Test, Genomic Bottlenecks, Molecular Connectomics
Tony has a lab at Cold Spring Harbour, New York. Using rodents, his lab studies the neural circuits underlying auditory decisions. He is...
Oct 25, 202234 min read
The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self
Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...
Jul 13, 20222 min read
#6 Alex Lascarides: Linguistics from Frege to Settlers of Catan
Alex is a professor and the director of the Institution for Language, Cognition and Computation at Edinburgh. She is interested in...
Jul 5, 20221 min read
#5 Felix Hill: Grounded Language, Transformers, and DeepMind
Felix is a research scientist at DeepMind. He is interested in grounded language understanding and natural language processing (NLP)....
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