Thomas and I talk about what happens in the brain’s visual system when you see something versus imagine it. He uses generative encoding and decoding models and brain signals like fMRI and EEG to test the nature of mental imagery. We also discuss the huge fMRI dataset of natural images he’s collected to infer models of the entire visual system, how we’ve still not tapped the potential of fMRI, and more.
In this second part of my discussion with Wolfgang (check out the first part), we talk about spiking neural networks in general, principles of...
Dileep and I discuss his theoretical account of how the thalamus and cortex work together to implement visual inference. We talked previously about his...
Support the Podcast David and I talk about his work to understand how sound waves floating in the air get transformed into meaningful concepts...
