Brain Space Time Podcast

Oct 11 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.

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.

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...