Kyle and I talk about his work modeling the basal ganglia and its circuitry to control whether we take an action and how we select among alternative actions. We also reflect on his experiences in academia, the larger picture of what it’s like in graduate school and after - at least in a computational neuroscience program - why he left, what he’s doing now, and how it all fits together.
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Jackie and Bob discuss their research and thinking about curiosity. Jackie’s background is studying decision making and attention, recording neurons in nonhuman primates during...
Panelists: Athena Akrami: @AthenaAkrami.Demba Ba.Gunnar Blohm: @GunnarBlohm.Kunlin Wei. This is the first in a series of panel discussions in collaboration with Neuromatch Academy, the...
Find out more about Steve at his website. I discovered him when I found his book chapter "What Can AI Get from Neuroscience?" in...
