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Brain Inspired

Paul Middlebrooks

Neuroscience 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

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01:38:11

BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict

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2025/01/03

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community.The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain

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01:37:22

BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain...

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2024/12/18

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Today I'm in conversation with Rajesh Rao, a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he also co-directs the Center for Neurotechnology. Back in 1999, Raj and Dana Ballard published what became quite a famous paper, which proposed how predictive coding might be implemented in brains. What is predictive coding, you may be wondering? It's roughly the

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01:37:11

BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

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2024/12/04

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop. You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative, but in case not, BRAIN is is huge funding effort across many agencies, one of which is the National Institutes of Health, where this recent workshop was held. The BRAIN Initiative began in 2013 under the Obama administration, with the goal to support developing

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01:49:07

BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

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2024/11/26

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” episode

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01:35:04

BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

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2024/11/11

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” episode

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01:29:31

BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

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2024/10/25

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” episode

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01:19:40

BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute...

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2024/10/11

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. This is the second conversation I had while teamed up with Gaute Einevoll at a workshop on NeuroAI in Norway. In this episode, Gaute and I

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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute...

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2024/10/08

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. This is the first of two less usual episodes. I was recently in Norway at a NeuroAI workshop called Validating models: How would success in

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01:37:21

BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps...

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2024/09/27

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.https://youtu.be/lbKEOdbeqHo The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. The Transmitter has provided a transcript for this episode. Vijay Namoodiri runs the Nam Lab at

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01:32:41

BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI

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2024/09/11

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Check out this story: Monkeys build mental maps to navigate new tasks Sign up for “Brain Inspired”

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01:30:34

BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness

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2024/08/28

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Àlex Gómez-Marín heads The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. He's one of those theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist, and he has studied a wide range of topics over his career. Most recently, he has become interested in what he calls the "edges of consciousness", which encompasses the many trying to explain what may be happening when we have experiences outside

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01:27:51

BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent...

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2024/08/15

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Damian Kelty-Stephen is an experimental psychologist at State University of New York at New Paltz. Last episode with Luis Favela, we discussed many of the ideas from ecological psychology, and how Louie is trying to reconcile those principles with those of neuroscience. In this episode, Damian and I in some ways continue that discussion, because Damian is also interested in unifying principles of ecological psychology

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01:41:03

BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain

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2024/07/31

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Luis Favela is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. He is part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part many things, and on this episode we discuss his new book, The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment. In the book, Louie presents his NeuroEcological Nexus Theory, or NExT, which, as the subtitle says, proposes a way forward to tie together our brains, our

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01:27:19

BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective...

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2024/06/29

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Jovo, as you'll learn, is theoretically oriented, and enjoys the formalism of mathematics to approach questions that begin with a sense of wonder. So after I learn more about his overall approach, the first topic we discuss is the world's currently largest map of an entire brain... the connectome of an insect, the fruit fly. We talk about his role in this collaborative effort, what the heck a connectome is, why it's

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01:28:14

BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and...

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2024/05/27

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.Jolande Fooken is a post-postdoctoral researcher interested in how we move our eyes and move our hands together to accomplish naturalistic tasks. Hand-eye coordination is one of those things that sounds simple and we do it all the time to make meals for our children day in, and day out, and day in, and day out. But it becomes way less seemingly simple as soon as you learn how we make various kinds of eye movements, and

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01:03:35

BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel

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2024/04/20

Support 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

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01:43:34

BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

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2024/03/25

Support 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

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01:44:50

BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior

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2024/03/06

Support 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

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01:30:47

BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles

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2024/02/20

Support 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

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01:28:54

BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning

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2024/02/06

Support 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

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