Brain Inspired
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsNeuroscience and artificial intelligence work better together. Brain inspired is a celebration and exploration of the ideas driving our progress to understand intelligence. I interview experts about their work at the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and more: the symbiosis of these overlapping fields, how they inform each other, where they differ, what the past brought us, and what the future brings. Topics include computational neuroscience, supervised machine learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, decision-making science, AI agents, backpropagation, credit assignment, neuroengineering, neuromorphics, emergence, philosophy of mind, consciousness, general AI, spiking neural networks, data science, and a lot more. The podcast is not produced for a general audience. Instead, it aims to educate, challenge, inspire, and hopefully entertain those interested in learning more about neuroscience and AI.
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BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel
April 20, 2024 16:27 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Recently I was invited to moderate a panel at the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience, or COSYNE, conference. This year was the 20th anniversary of COSYNE, and we were in Lisbon Porturgal. The panel goal was to discuss the relationship between neuroscience and AI. The panelists were Tony Zador, Alex Pouget, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Kim Stachenfeld, Jonathan Pillow, and Eva Dyer. And I'll let them introduce themsel...
BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted
March 25, 2024 22:39 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. Today we discuss topics from her new book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience. She largely argues that when we try to understand something complex, like the brain, using models, and math, and analogies, for example - we should keep in mind these are all ways of simplifying and abstracting away details to ...
BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior
March 06, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. As some of you know, I recently got back into the research world, and in particular I work in Eric Yttris' lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Eric's lab studies the relationship between various kinds of behaviors and the neural activity in a few areas known to be involved in enacting and shaping those behaviors, namely the motor cortex and basal ganglia. And study that, he uses tools like optogentics, neuronal recording...
BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles
February 20, 2024 02:35 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Peter Stratton is a research scientist at Queensland University of Technology. I was pointed toward Pete by a patreon supporter, who sent me a sort of perspective piece Pete wrote that is the main focus of our conversation, although we also talk about some of his work in particular - for example, he works with spiking neural networks, like my last guest, Dan Goodman. What Pete argues for is what he calls a sideways-in a...
BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning
February 06, 2024 23:57 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. You may know my guest as the co-founder of Neuromatch, the excellent online computational neuroscience academy, or as the creator of the Brian spiking neural network simulator, which is freely available. I know him as a spiking neural network practitioner extraordinaire. Dan Goodman runs the Neural Reckoning Group at Imperial College London, where they use spiking neural networks to figure out how biological and artificia...
BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again
January 19, 2024 15:48 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today we discuss some topics framed around what he's been working on and thinking about lately. Things like Whether brains actually reorganize after damage The role of brain plasticity in general The path toward and the path not toward understanding higher cognition How to...
BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence
December 25, 2023 21:32 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience By day, Max Bennett is an entrepreneur. He has cofounded and CEO'd multiple AI and technology companies. By many other countless hours, he has studied brain related sciences. Those long hours of research have payed off in the form of this book, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains. Three ...
BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding
December 11, 2023 14:39 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Welcome to another special panel discussion episode. I was recently invited to moderate at discussion amongst 6 people at the annual Aspirational Neuroscience meetup. Aspirational Neuroscience is a nonprofit community run by Kenneth Hayworth. Ken has been on the podcast before on episode 103. Ken helps me introduce the meetup and panel discussion for a few minutes. The goal in general was to discuss how current and devel...
BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism
November 27, 2023 02:14 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Laura Gradowski is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Pluralism is roughly the idea that there is no unified account of any scientific field, that we should be tolerant of and welcome a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and methods, and goals, when doing science. Pluralism is kind of a buzz word right now in ...
BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions
November 13, 2023 20:36 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Eric Shea-Brown is a theoretical neuroscientist and principle investigator of the working group on neural dynamics at the University of Washington. In this episode, we talk a lot about dynamics and dimensionality in neural networks... how to think about them, why they matter, how Eric's perspectives have changed through his career. We discuss a ha...
BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel
October 30, 2023 01:12 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. I was recently invited to moderate a panel at the Annual Bernstein conference - this one was in Berlin Germany. The panel I moderated was at a satellite workshop at the conference called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience? Below are the panelists. I hope you enjoy the discussion! Program: How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience? P...
BI 176 David Poeppel Returns
October 14, 2023 16:47 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at NYU, where they stud`y auditory cognition, speech perception, language, and music. On the heels of the episode with David Glanzman, we discuss the ongoing mystery regarding how memory works, how to study and think about brains and minds, and the reemergence (perhaps) of the language of thought hypothesis. David has been on the podcast a few times... once by himself, and again with Gyorgy Buzsaki. P...
BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents
October 03, 2023 10:37 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Kevin Mitchell is professor of genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He's been on the podcast before, and we talked a little about his previous book, Innate – How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. He's back today to discuss his new book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. The book is written very well and guides the reader throug...
BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
September 13, 2023 13:06 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Alicia Juarrero is a philosopher and has been interested in complexity since before it was cool. In this episode, we discuss many of the topics and ideas in her new book, Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, which makes the thorough case that constraints should be given way more attention when trying to understand complex...
BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence
August 30, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. In the intro, I mention the Bernstein conference workshop I'll participate in, called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience?. Follow that link to learn more, and register for the conference here. Hope to see you there in late September in Berlin! Justin Wood runs the Wood Lab at Indiana University, and his lab's tagline is "building newborn minds in virtual worlds." In this ep...
BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down
August 07, 2023 10:46 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at UCLA where he's also a distinguished professor. David used to believe what is currently the mainstream view, that our memories are stored in our synapses, those connections between our neurons. So as we learn, the synaptic connections strengthen and weaken until their just right, and that serves to preserve the memory. That's been the dominant view in neuroscience for decades, and is the fundamenta...
BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition
July 22, 2023 00:17 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest is Michael C. Frank, better known as Mike Frank, who runs the Language and Cognition lab at Stanford. Mike's main interests center on how children learn language - in particular he focuses a lot on early word learning, and what that tells us about our other cognitive functions, like concept formation and social cognition. We discuss that...
BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab
July 11, 2023 18:11 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience In this episode I have a casual chat with Ali Mohebi about his new faculty position and his plans for the future. Ali's website. Twitter: @mohebial
BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language
June 28, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest today is Andrea Martin, who is the Research Group Leader in the department of Language and Computation in Neural Systems at the Max Plank Institute and the Donders Institute. Andrea is deeply interested in understanding how our biological brains process and represent language. To this end, she is developing a theoretical model of language...
BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
June 02, 2023 15:42 - 1 hour - 107 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routin...
BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites
May 27, 2023 15:22 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Panayiota Poirazi runs the Poirazi Lab at the FORTH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and Yiota loves dendrites, those branching tree-like structures sticking out of all your neurons, and she thinks you should love dendrites, too, whether you study biological or artificial intelligence. In neuroscience, the old story was that dendr...
BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality
May 09, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Nick Enfield is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. In this episode we discuss topics in his most recent book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists. A central question in the book is what is language for? What's the function of language. You might be familiar with the debate about whethe...
BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect
April 12, 2023 15:46 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jeffrey Bowers is a psychologist and professor at the University of Bristol. As you know, many of my previous guests are in the business of comparing brain activity to the activity of units in artificial neural network models, when humans or animals and the models are performing the same tasks. And a big story that has emerged over the past decade...
BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought
April 01, 2023 12:07 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studies how language and cognition are related. In some ways, this is a continuation of the conversation I had last episode with Ellie Pavlick, in that we partly continue to discuss large language models. But Gary is more focused on how language, and naming things, cate...
BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model
March 20, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour - 75 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ellie Pavlick runs her Language Understanding and Representation Lab at Brown University, where she studies lots of topics related to language. In AI, large language models, sometimes called foundation models, are all the rage these days, with their ability to generate convincing language, although they still make plenty of mistakes. One of the th...
BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property
March 08, 2023 16:44 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Earl Miller runs the Miller Lab at MIT, where he studies how our brains carry out our executive functions, like working memory, attention, and decision-making. In particular he is interested in the role of the prefrontal cortex and how it coordinates with other brain areas to carry out these functions. During this episode, we talk broadly about ho...
BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition
February 24, 2023 15:32 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Hugo Spiers runs the Spiers Lab at University College London. In general Hugo is interested in understanding spatial cognition, like navigation, in relation to other processes like planning and goal-related behavior, and how brain areas like the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex coordinate these cognitive functions. So, in this episode, we discuss...
BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition
February 07, 2023 16:08 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ole Jensen is co-director of the Centre for Human Brain Health at University of Birmingham, where he runs his Neuronal Oscillations Group lab. Ole is interested in how the oscillations in our brains affect our cognition by helping to shape the spiking patterns of neurons, and by helping to allocate resources to parts of our brains that are relevan...
BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence
January 26, 2023 23:18 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Chris Summerfield runs the Human Information Processing Lab at University of Oxford, and he's a research scientist at Deepmind. You may remember him from episode 95 with Sam Gershman, when we discussed ideas around the usefulness of neuroscience and psychology for AI. Since then, Chris has released his book, Natural General Intelligence: How under...
BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures
January 16, 2023 13:50 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Paul Rosenbloom is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. In the early 1980s, Paul , along with John Laird and the early AI pioneer Alan Newell, developed one the earliest and best know cognitive architectures called SOAR. A cognitive architecture, as Paul defines it, is a model of the fixed structures and...
BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory
January 02, 2023 20:32 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Sarah Robins is a philosopher at the University of Kansas, one a growing handful of philosophers specializing in memory. Much of her work focuses on memory traces, which is roughly the idea that somehow our memories leave a trace in our minds. We discuss memory traces themselves and how they relate to the engram (see BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where ...
BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception
December 23, 2022 00:37 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Mariam Aly runs the Aly lab at Columbia University, where she studies the interaction of memory, attention, and perception in brain regions like the hippocampus. The short story is that memory affects our perceptions, attention affects our memories, memories affect our attention, and these effects have signatures in neural activity measurements in...
BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain
December 10, 2022 06:46 - 1 hour - 105 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Luiz Pessoa runs his Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studies how emotion and cognition interact. On this episode, we discuss many of the topics from his latest book, The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together, which is aimed at a general audience. The boo...
BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory
November 29, 2022 02:45 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Anne Collins runs her Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Berkley One of the things she's been working on for years is how our working memory plays a role in learning as well, and specifically how working memory and reinforcement learning interact to affect how we learn, depending on the nature of what we're ...
BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self
November 18, 2022 15:39 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Carolyn Dicey Jennings is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist at University of California, Merced. In her book The Attending Mind, she lays out an attempt to unify the concept of attention. Carolyn defines attention roughly as the mental prioritization of some stuff over other stuff based on our collective interests. And one of her main claims...
BI 153 Carolyn Jennings: Attention and the Self
November 18, 2022 15:39 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Carolyn Dicey Jennings is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist at University of California, Merced. In her book The Attending Mind, she lays out an attempt to unify the concept of attention. Carolyn defines attention roughly as the mental prioritization of some stuff over other stuff based on our collective interests. And one of her main claims is that attention is evidence of a real, emergent self or subject, that can...
BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse
November 08, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Michael L. Anderson is a professor at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at Western University. His book, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain, calls for a re-conceptualization of how we understand and study brains and minds. Neural reuse is the phenomenon that any given brain area is active for multiple cognitive functions, a...
BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety
October 30, 2022 16:48 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Steve Byrnes is a physicist turned AGI safety researcher. He's concerned that when we create AGI, whenever and however that might happen, we run the risk of creating it in a less than perfectly safe way. AGI safety (AGI not doing something bad) is a wide net that encompasses AGI alignment (AGI doing what we want it to do). We discuss a host of ideas Steve writes about in his Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety blog series, whi...
BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
October 15, 2022 17:48 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBSupport the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates the history of science and philosophy into modern analyses of our conceptions of processes related to life and organisms. He is also interested in re-orienting our conception of the universe as made fundamentally of things/substances, and replacing it with the idea the univ...
BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence
October 05, 2022 17:20 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. William B. Miller is an ex-physician turned evolutionary biologist. In this episode, we discuss topics related to his new book, Bioverse: How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Questions. The premise of the book is that all individual cells are intelligent in their own right, and possess a sense of self. From this, Bill make...
BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations
September 25, 2022 16:13 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Gaute Einevoll is a professor at the University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Use develops detailed models of brain networks to use as simulations, so neuroscientists can test their various theories and hypotheses about how networks implement various functions. Thus, the models are tools. The goal is to create models that are ...
BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico
September 13, 2022 15:11 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Noah Hutton writes, directs, and scores documentary and narrative films. On this episode, we discuss his documentary In Silico. In 2009, Noah watched a TED talk by Henry Markram, in which Henry claimed it would take 10 years to fully simulate a human brain. This claim inspired Noah to chronicle the project, visiting Henry and his team periodically...
BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
September 07, 2022 14:35 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Lauren Ross is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies and writes about causal and non-causal explanations in philosophy of science, including distinctions among causal structures. Throughout her work, Lauren employs Jame's Woodward's interventionist approach to causation, which Jim and I discussed in episode 14...
BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face
August 28, 2022 21:03 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. James Woodward is a recently retired Professor from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Jim has tremendously influenced the field of causal explanation in the philosophy of science. His account of causation centers around intervention - intervening on a cause should alter its effect. From this minim...
BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models
August 17, 2022 16:25 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBCheck out my short video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience. Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Large language models, often now called "foundation models", are the model de jour in AI, based on the transformer architecture. In this episode, I bring together Evelina Fedorenko and Emily M. Bender to discuss how language models stack up to our own language processing and generation (models and brains both excel at next-word prediction), whet...
BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control
August 05, 2022 23:15 - 1 hour - 78 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Rodolphe Sepulchre is a control engineer and theorist at Cambridge University. He focuses on applying feedback control engineering principles to build circuits that model neurons and neuronal circuits. We discuss his work on mixed feedback control - positive and negative - as an underlying principle of the mixed digital and analog brain signals,, ...
BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA
July 26, 2022 17:54 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Cameron Buckner is a philosopher and cognitive scientist at The University of Houston. He is writing a book about the age-old philosophical debate on how much of our knowledge is innate (nature, rationalism) versus how much is learned (nurture, empiricism). In the book and his other works, Cameron argues that modern AI can help settle the debate. ...
BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics
July 12, 2022 19:42 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Carina Curto is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University. She uses her background skills in mathematical physics/string theory to study networks of neurons. On this episode, we discuss the world of topology in neuroscience - the study of the geometrical structures mapped out by active populations of neurons...
BI 140 Jeff Schall: Decisions and Eye Movements
June 30, 2022 22:37 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jeff Schall is the director of the Center for Visual Neurophysiology at York University, where he runs the Schall Lab. His research centers around studying the mechanisms of our decisions, choices, movement control, and attention within the saccadic eye movement brain systems and in mathematical psychology models- in other words, how we decide whe...
BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory
June 20, 2022 16:49 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBCheck out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Marc Howard runs his Theoretical Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Boston University, where he develops mathematical models of cognition, constrained by psychological and neural data. In this episode, we discuss the idea that a Laplace transform and its inverse may serve as a unified framework for memory. In short, our memories are compressed on a con...