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Oct 1, 20241 min read
#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 7, 20245 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?
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Feb 3, 20241 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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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