Brain Space Time Podcast

Neuroscience is full of open questions. The most fundamental come down to space and time. What can place cells, grid cells and cognitive maps tell us about the evolutionary history from spatial navigation to abstract cognition? Do temporal dynamics between neural oscillations of different frequencies explain how information is structured in the brain? And are there species differences in how time is perceived? To find answers, or at least better questions, I am interviewing researchers in neuroscience, philosophy and physics.

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...