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.
Daeyeol and I discuss his book Birth of Intelligence: From RNA to Artificial Intelligence, which argues intelligence is a function of and inseparable from...
Kyle and I talk about his work modeling the basal ganglia and its circuitry to control whether we take an action and how we...
Dileep and I discuss his theoretical account of how the thalamus and cortex work together to implement visual inference. We talked previously about his...
