Brain Inspired

BI 001 Steven Potter: Brains in Dishes

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Find out more about Steve at his website.

I discovered him when I found his book chapter “What Can AI Get from Neuroscience?” in the following:

“50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence,” M. Lungarella, J. Bongard, & R. Pfeifer (eds.) (pp. 174-185). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Download the chapter. Link to the whole book at Springer.

These days Steve is semi-retired, but is an active consultant for high-tech startups, companies, or individuals.

Things mentioned in the show (check out his part 2 episode for more links!)

  • Papers we talked about:
    • Publishing negative results!
      • Wagenaar, D. A., Pine, J., & Potter, S. M. (2006). Searching for plasticity in dissociated cortical cultures on multi-electrode arrays. Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 5:16. Download
      • Solving the bursting neurons problem:
        • Wagenaar, D. A. Madhavan, R. Pine, J. and Potter, S. M. (2005) Controlling bursting in cortical cultures with closed-loop multi-electrode stimulation. J. Neuroscience 25: 680-68 Download
        • Training the cultured networks:
          • Chao, Z. C., Bakkum, D. J., & Potter, S. M. (2008). Shaping Embodied Neural Networks for Adaptive Goal-directed Behavior. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(3): e1000042. 
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