BJKS Podcast

Nanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how the technologies have changed and what might happen in the future. We also talk about how she runs her lab, how to learn as a PI, and what Nanthia enjoys about mentoring students and postdocs.

We had some minor audio issues, so Nanthia switched her recording setup twice during the conversation. Sound should still be good though.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Was it good that Nanthia finished school so young?
01:27: How invasive recordings in humans have changed over the past 15 years
10:45: The future of invasive recordings in humans
19:29: Mentorship in academia
30:01: Learning as a PI
36:02: Book or paper more people should read
40:53: Something Nanthia wishes she'd learnt sooner
45:42: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Nanthia's links

• Website: https://geni.us/suthana-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/suthana-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/suthana-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References and links

Nanthia's episode in Stories of Women in Neuroscience:
https://www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/2021/3/24/dr-nanthia-suthana

Episodes w/ Matthias Stangl and Gareth Barnes:
https://geni.us/bjks-barnes
https://geni.us/bjks-stangl
https://geni.us/bjks-postdoc-stangl

Boto et al (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.
Feinsinger et al (2022). Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans. Neuron.
Gill et al (2023). A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder. Nature Communications.
Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser & Moser (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature.
O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.
Preston, Kuper-Smith & Ehrsson (2015). Owning the body in the mirror: The effect of visual perspective and mirror view on the full-body illusion. Scientific Reports.
Sacks (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat.
Scoville & Milner (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.
Stangl, Topalovic,  ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.
Stangl, Maoz & Suthana (2023). Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Topalovic et al (2023). A wearable platform for closed-loop stimulation and recording of single-neuron and local field potential activity in freely moving humans. Nature Neuroscience. 

Gillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went from Ireland to doing a PhD in the UK, different ways for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, what beta-amyloid and tau are, what spatial navigation has to do with dementia, and whether early menopause can affect women's spatial navigation performance and risk of getting dementia.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Playing the piano
07:13: How Gillian ended up doing her PhD with Michael Hornberger in Norwich
14:02: How to find a good mentor
16:48: Sea Hero Quest
22:28: Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease
32:37: The role of Beta-Amyloid and tau in dementia
34:41: Spatial navigation, the entorhinal cortex, and dementia
44:14: Does menopause affect spatial navigation and risk of dementia?
50:31: Book or paper more people should read
52:37: Something Gillain wishes she'd learnt sooner
55:31: Advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Gillian's links

• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/coughlan-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/coughlan-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References and links

Episodes with Michael Hornberger and Hugo Spiers
https://geni.us/bjks-hornberger
https://geni.us/bjks-spiers
 
Coughlan, DeSouza, Zhukovsky, Hornberger, Grady & Buckley (2023). Spatial cognition is associated with levels of phosphorylated-tau and β-amyloid in clinically normal older adults. Neurobiology of Aging.
Coughlan, ... Buckley (2023). Association of age at menopause and hormone therapy use with tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography. JAMA Neurology.
Coughlan, Coutrot, Khondoker, Minihane, Spiers & Hornberger (2019). Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease. PNAS.
Coughlan, Laczó, Hort, Minihane & Hornberger (2018). Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?. Nature Reviews Neurology.
Eger (2017). The Choice.
Pertesi, Coughlan, Puthusseryppady, Morris & Hornberger (2019). Menopause, cognition and dementia–A review. Post reproductive health.

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our second conversation. We discuss how the Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map was received, Lynn's career, including his years as head of department at the University of Arizona, how to foster collaboration, why Lynn started the Hippocampal History project, and the development and clinical aspects of the hippocampus.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Who was A. Black?
03:38: How was The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map received?
08:08: Lynn's wandering years
15:46: At the University of Arizona
21:24: How to foster collaboration
28:29: Being a head of department
38:22: The Hippocampal History project
42:56: Lynn's developmental work

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Lynn's links

• Website: https://geni.us/nadel-web
• Mastodon: https://geni.us/nadel-mastodon

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References
Lynn's first episode: https://geni.us/bjks-nadel

Black, Nadel & O'Keefe (1977). Hippocampal function in avoidance learning and punishment. Psychological Bulletin.
Edgin, Spano, Kawa & Nadel (2014). Remembering things without context: development matters. Child development.
Goddard (1964). Functions of the amygdala. Psychological bulletin.
Lynch (1979). Representations in the Brain: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel. Science.
Nadel & Moscovitch (1997). Memory consolidation, retrograde amnesia and the hippocampal complex. Current opinion in neurobiology.
Nadel, Samsonovich, Ryan & Moscovitch (2000). Multiple trace theory of human memory: computational, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological results. Hippocampus.
Nadel, Willner & Kurz (1986). The neurobiology of mental representations. In Myles Brand (ed.), The Representation of Knowledge and Belief. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Free download: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103569/
O'Keefe & Nadel (1979). Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel's The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Pennington, Moon, Edgin, Stedron & Nadel (2003). The neuropsychology of Down syndrome: evidence for hippocampal dysfunction. Child development.
Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS.
Squire, Nadel & Slater (1981). Anterograde amnesia and memory for temporal order. Neuropsychologia.
Sutherland & Rudy (1989). Configural association theory: The role of the hippocampal formation in learning, memory, and amnesia. Psychobiology.

Adam Mastroianni is a scientist who writes the Substack 'Experimental History'. This is our second conversation. We discuss science as a strong-link problem, why everyone is allowed to do science, and some of Adam's suggestions for how science can be done differently.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: Adam's Substack is now his main thing
0:05:32: Paradigms in psychology
0:16:40: Who's allowed to do science? Science as a strong-link problem
0:36:41: A fleet of ships, The Psychology House, and Dan Gilbert's supervsion
1:06:53: How to cultivate good feedback
1:13:20: A book, paper, or blog post more people should read
1:16:26: Something Adam wishes he'd learnt sooner
1:18:34: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Adam's links

• Website: https://geni.us/mastroianni-web
• Substack: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/mastroianni-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/mastroianni-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

Links
1st episode with Adam: https://geni.us/bjks-mastroianni

Pure green in Blackadder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDIJiwNk2n8

Blog posts
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-the
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-experimental-history-experiment
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/psychology-is-ok
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/

Behind the Bastard's episode about libertarians recreating governments at sea: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-not-at-all-sad-history-of-89890804/

References
Cosmides & Tooby (2015). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. The handbook of evo psych.
Gilbert (2006). Stumbling on happiness.
Hesse (1922). Siddhartha.
Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk
Richerson & Boyd (1978). A dual inheritance model of the human evolutionary process. J of Soc and Bio Structu

Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, where he studies the evolution of behavior in response to social, cultural, and ecological pressures. In this conversation, we talk about his new book Modeling Social Behavior, everything related to formal models of social behaviour, and Paul's path to where he is today.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: Paul's new book 'Modeling Social Behavior'
0:04:42: Paul's somewhat circuitous route to doing what he does today
0:25:54: Why so interdisciplinary?
0:36:58: The importance of (metaphorical) violence in modeling
0:46:26: Newton's model of gravitation ignores almost everything
0:52:11: Exact vs inexact sciences
1:00:02: From simple to complex models of cooperation, and the complementarity of simulations and equations
1:11:48: When is formal modeling appropriate and when is it too soon?
1:27:47: A book or paper Paul thinks more people should read
1:32:46: What Paul wishes he'd learnt sooner
1:36:20: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Paul's links

• Website: https://geni.us/smaldino-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/smaldino-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/smaldino-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References

Previous episode with Paul: https://geni.us/bjks-smaldino

Axelrod & Hamilton (1981). The evolution of cooperation. Science.
Boyd & Richerson (1988). Culture and the evolutionary process.
Friston (2012). The history of the future of the Bayesian brain. NeuroImage.
Giraldeau & Caraco (2000). Social foraging theory. Princeton University Press.
Giraldeau & Gillis (1985). Optimal group size can be stable: a reply to Sibly. Animal Behaviour.
Gleick (2004). Isaac Newton.
Glimcher (2004). Decisions, uncertainty, and the brain: The science of neuroeconomics.
Hamilton (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour. Journal of theoretical biology.
Kauffman (1970). Articulation of parts explanation in biology and the rational search for them. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Kay (2010). Obliquity.
Nowak & May (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature.
Smaldino (2023). Modeling social behavior: Mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution. Princeton University Press.
Smaldino (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them. Computational social psychology.
Smaldino, Pickett, Sherman & Schank (2012). An agent-based model of social identity dynamics. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
Turchin (2003). Historical dynamics: Why states rise and fall.
Wimsatt (1987). False models as means to truer theories. Neutral models in biology.
Wimsatt (2007). Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings: Piecewise approximations to reality.
Zukav (2012). The dancing Wu Li masters: An overview of the new physics. 

Moin Syed is a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he studies identity and personality development. Our conversation focuses on his work in meta-science, especially the role of journals and editors in the scientific process.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: The silliness of prestige journals (especially PNAS)
0:18:45: Deep description are necessary for science and theory
0:29:43: Where should I submit my paper?
0:35:51: Why would one want to be an editor at a journal?
0:55:27: Cover letters
1:03:44: Should I sign my peer reviews?
1:13:03: A book/paper Moin thinks more people should read
1:19:23: Something Moin wishes he'd learnt earlier
1:29:22: Moin's advice to PhD students/postdocs

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Moin's links

• Website: https://geni.us/syed-web
• Substack/blog: https://geni.us/syed-blog
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/syed-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/syed-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References/links
For Moin's blog posts on prestige journals, being an editor, etc. see link above for his Substack/blog
Gelman on Himmicanes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/05/hurricanes-vs-himmicanes/
Episodes w/ Chris Chambers (https://geni.us/bjks-chambers) and Mary-Elizabeth Sutherland (https://geni.us/bjks-sutherland)

Bem (1987). Writing the empirical journal article. The compleat academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist.
Cooper (1987). Conceptualizing research on adolescent development in the family: Four root metaphors. Journal of Adolescent Research.
Crüwell, ... (2023). What’s in a badge? A computational reproducibility investigation... Psychological Science.
DeYoung (2015). Cybernetic big five theory. Journal of research in personality.
Dougherty & Horne (2022). Citation counts and journal impact factors do not capture ... Royal Society Open Science.
Forestier, ... (2022). From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon. Motivation Science.
Hagger, ... (2016). A multilab preregistered replication of the ego-depletion effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Jung, ... (2014). Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Palminteri (2023, February 26). How to prepare a rebuttal letter: Some advice from a scientist, reviewer and editor. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kyfus
Pepper (1942). World hypotheses: A study in evidence. Univ of California Press.
Rozin (2001). Social psychology and science: Some lessons from Solomon Asch. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Tom Hostler is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this conversation, we focus on his recent article on the increased workload caused by open science.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
0:00:00: Start discussing Tom's paper 'The Invisible Workload of Open Research'
0:29:22: Does open science actually increase workload?
0:44:26: How open science changes the research process
0:54:02: Are open science requirements especially time consuming for labs without lots of funding?
1:01:44: What are the most effective open science practices?
1:06:31: Book or paper Tom thinks more people should read
1:09:39: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner
1:13:32: Tom's advice for PhD students and postdocs

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Tom's links

• Website: https://geni.us/hostler-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/hostler-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/hostler-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References
 Aczel, Szaszi, Sarafoglou et al. A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nat Hum Behav 4, 4–6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6
Bozeman, Youtie & Jung (2021). Death by a thousand 10-minute tasks: Workarounds and noncompliance in university research administration. Administration & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720947994
Costantini, Cordero, Campbell, … Pearson, R. M. (2021). Mental Health Intergenerational Transmission (MHINT) Process Manual. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/s6n4h
Dienes (2008). Understanding psychology as a science: An introduction to scientific and statistical inference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Forscher, Wagenmakers, Coles, Silan, Dutra, Basnight-Brown & IJzerman (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of big-team science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Hostler (2023). The Invisible Workload of Open Research. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5
Nickerson (2000). Null hypothesis significance testing: a review of an old and continuing controversy. Psychological methods.
Schneider (2015). The censor's hand: The misregulation of human-subject research. MIT Press.

Links
UK REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_Framework
Mark Rubin's Critical Metascience Blog: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Reporting checklist: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/

Nico Schuck is Professor and head of the research group 'Mechanisms of learning and change' at the University of Hamburg, where his research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, memory, and cognitive maps. In this conversation, we discuss his work on cognitive maps and replay in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Hippocampus, decoding even brief events with fMRI, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: Nico's work elicits 'limited enthusiasm'
04:36: Multivariate decoding with fMRI
13:23: Start discussing Nico's paper 'Human OFC represents a cognitive map of state space'
19:39: Weird tasks in computational neuroscience
27:30: Start discussing Nico's paper ' Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus'
36:45: How can the slow fMRI signal pick up on very fast neural dynamics?
43:02: What is Orbitofrontal Cortex and what does it do?
49:24: Some books and papers more people should read
55:17: Something Nico wishes he'd learnt sooner
56:40: Advice for young scientists

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Nico's links

• Website: https://geni.us/schuck-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/schuck-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/schuck-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References
Aly & Turk-Browne (2016). Attention stabilizes representations in the human hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex.
Bishop (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. New York: Springer.
Kaplan, Schuck & Doeller (2017). The role of mental maps in decision-making. Trends in Neurosciences.
Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Moneta, Garvert, Heekeren & Schuck (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications.
Schuck, Cai, Wilson & Niv (2016). Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space. Neuron.
Schuck & Niv (2019). Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus. Science.
Shepard (1987). Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science.
Skaggs & McNaughton (1996). Replay of neuronal firing sequences in rat hippocampus during sleep following spatial experience. Science.
Sutton & Barto (2018). Reinforcement learning: An introduction. MIT press.
Tang, LeBel, Jain & Huth (2023). Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. Nature Neuroscience.
Todd, Nystrom & Cohen(2013). Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: theory and rule representation case study. Neuroimage.
Wilson, Takahashi, Schoenbaum & Niv (2014). Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space. Neuron.

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. In this conversation, we talk about the early years of Lynn's career: why he chose to do chemistry, how a course with Donald Hebb made him switch to psychology, how his postdoc was disrupted by the Soviet invasion during the Prague Spring, John O'Keefe's discovery of place cells, how Lynn and O'Keefe wrote The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon

Timestamps
00:00: How Lynn went from studying chemistry to doing a PhD on memory
08:35: What was it like working Donald Hebb?
15:16: The golden era of cognitive neuroscience at McGill in the 50s and 60s
23:14: Lynn's postdoc in Prague was interrupted by the Soviet invasion during Prague Spring
36:29: The discovery of place cells and the writing of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map
50:59: A paper or book Lynn thinks more people should read
54:55: Something Lynn wishes he'd learnt sooner
57:38: Advice for early career scientists

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Lynn's links

• Website: https://geni.us/nadel-web
• Mastodon: https://geni.us/nadel-mastodon

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References and links

Episode w/ Kate Jeffery: https://geni.us/bjks-jeffery
Konorski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Konorski
JZ Young: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zachary_Young

Goddard (1983). The kindling model of epilepsy. Trends in Neurosciences.
Káli & Dayan (2002). Replay, repair and consolidation. Adv in Neur Info Proc Sys.
Klein, Cosmides, Tooby & Chance (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions. Psych Rev.
Konorski (1967). Integrative activity of the brain; an interdisciplinary approach.
McClelland, McNaughton & O'Reilly (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psych Rev.
Melzack & Wall (1965). Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory: A gate control system modulates sensory input from the skin before it evokes pain perception and response. Science.
Nadel & Buresova (1968). Monocular input and interhemispheric transfer in the reversible split-brain. Nature.
Olds & Milner (1954). Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain. J comp & phys psychol.
O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.
O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Oxford University Press.
Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nat Neuro.
Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS.

Mona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcast

Timestamps
00:00: How Mona started working on cognitive maps
15:28: Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation
28:49: Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex'
40:07: Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain?
43:37: Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization'
55:50: Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatry

Podcast links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Mona's links

• Website: https://geni.us/garvert-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/garvert-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/garvert-twt

Ben's links

• Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References & links
Mona's talk at TCPW: https://www.quentinhuys.com/tcpw/events/mona-garvert/
Where Mona now works: https://alena.com/

Barron, Garvert & Behrens (2016). Repetition suppression: a means to index neural representations using BOLD? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Clark & Wells (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In Heimberg, Liebowitz, Hope, & Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.
Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.
Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature.
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