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#9 Hugo Merchant: Neuronal population clocks

Hugo works with macaques, who can rhythmically tap their fingers synchronized to a visual or auditory beat.

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.

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.

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.

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 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)....

Jun 29, 20221 min read

#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference

Beren is a postdoc in Oxford with a background in machine learning and computational neuroscience. He is interested in Active Inference...

May 8, 20223 min read

Getting to know AI

‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...