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BI 058 Wolfgang Maass: Computing Brains and Spiking Nets
In this first part of our conversation (here's the second part), Wolfgang and I discuss the state of theoretical and computational neuroscience, and how...
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BI 057 Nicole Rust: Visual Memory and Novelty
Nicole and I discuss how a signature for visual memory can be coded among the same population of neurons known to encode object identity,...
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BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition
Support the show on Patreon for almost nothing. I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon's bounded rationality and...
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BI 055 Thomas Naselaris: Seeing Versus Imagining
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...
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BI 054 Kanaka Rajan: How Do We Switch Behaviors?
Kanaka and I discuss a few different ways she uses recurrent neural networks to understand how brains give rise to behaviors. We talk about...
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BI 053 Jon Brennan: Linguistics in Minds and Machines
Jon and I discuss understanding the syntax and semantics of language in our brains. He uses linguistic knowledge at the level of sentence and...