BJKS Podcast

Chris Frith is an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London. His research has spanned several topics, including social cognition, schizophrenia, volition, and consciousness. We talk about Two Heads (a book co-written with his wife and son), his career, and the history of the FIL.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
00:04: Why did Chris not become a musician?
06:14: How Chris became a comic book hero
14:31: Collaborating with economists (as a neuroscientist or psychologist)
22:34: A triple history of Chris's career, neuroimaging, and the FIL at UCL
47:14: Career advice: explorers and exploiters in science, and skills to learn
57:00: Was all the effort worth it?
1:00:10: Sci-fi and detective story recommendations

Podcast links

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

Chris's links

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

Ben's links

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

References
Blakemore ... (1998). Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation. Nature neuroscience.
Cook ... (2012). Automatic imitation in a strategic context ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Corcoran ... (1995). Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference ... Schizophrenia research.
Feinberg ... (1999). Schizophrenia–a disorder of the corollary discharge ... The British Journal of Psychiatry.
Fletcher ... (1995). Other minds in the brain ... Cognition.
Frith ... (2022). Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains.
Frith (2013). Making up the mind: How the brain creates our mental world.
Frith ... (1991). Willed action and the prefrontal cortex in man: a study with PET. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
Haruno ... (2010). Activity in the amygdala elicited by unfair divisions predicts social value orientation. Nature neuroscience.
Haruno ...  (2014). Activity in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala ... Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Helmholtz (1867). Treatise on physiological optics.
Johnstone ... (1976). Cerebral ventricular size and cognitive impairment in chronic schizophrenia. The Lancet.
Medwed (2007). The innocent prisoner's dilemma: ... Iowa Law Review.
Posner ... (1988). Localization of cognitive operations in the human brain. Science.
Shelley (1818). Frankenstein.
Wegner (2004). Précis of the illusion of conscious will. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Links
Seiber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqqfWfwRlQ
Ma mère l'oye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEC_XGjgluo
Dolly Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-VOOVN2XQ
Chris's interview with the BPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjku9ASscis
https://interactingminds.au.dk/
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie

Cameron Brick is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of climate change. In this conversation, we talk about climate change, the psychological aspects behind it, the difficulty of defining pro-environmental behaviour, and his recent article on Illusory Essences in psychological (and neuroscientific) research.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
0:00:04: How Cameron started working on the psychology of climate change
0:06:24: What is the actual problem of climate change? And what can we do about it?
0:21:47: What actually is "pro-environmental behaviour" and how can we measure it?
0:32:35: What kind of person is pro-environemtnal, and why?
0:38:54: Start discussing Illusory Essences
0:45:20: Formal models in psychology
0:47:23: Are the Big-5 in personality an illusory essence?
1:01:17: How to solve the problem of illusory essences


Podcast links

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

Cameron's links

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

Ben's links

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

References
Brick, Hood, Ekroll & De-Wit (2022). Illusory essences: A bias holding back theorizing in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Brick & van der Linden (2018). Yawning at the Apocalypse. The
Psychologist.
Brick, Sherman & Kim (2017). “Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”: Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Brick & Lewis (2016). Unearthing the “green” personality: Core traits predict environmentally friendly behavior. Environment and Behavior.
Smaldino (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them. Computational social psychology.
Spence, Poortinga & Pidgeon (2012). The psychological distance of climate change. Risk Analysis: An International Journal.
Srivastava (2010). The five-factor model describes the structure of social perceptions. Psychological Inquiry.
Updegraff, Brick, Emanuel, Mintzer & Sherman (2015). Message framing for health: moderation by perceived susceptibility and motivational orientation in a diverse sample of Americans. Health Psychology.
Wittgenstein (1953). Philosophical investigations.

Background on why I laughed at Cameron mentioning Brian Wansick: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking
Where I learnt to floss by doing only 1 tooth per day: Fogg, B. J. (2019). Tiny habits: The small changes that change everything.
Borges's short story about maps: https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-science-annotated

Peter Vuust is a Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain in Aarhus, a jazz musician, and composer. In this conversation , we talk about his recent review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, how he got to where he is, active inference in music, jazz improvisation, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
00:05: How Peter became a jazz musician
04:54: How Peter became professor of neuroscience
08:20: How to combine two different professions practically?
11:50: Start discussing 'Music in the brain'
24:53: How do prediction errors change with familiarty of a piece of music?
38:18: How does moving to the beat (active inference) reduce prediction errors?
46:48: The 3 dynamics in musical synchronisation
55:10: How does Peter compose for improvisation in jazz?

Podcast links

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

Peter's links

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

Heggli, Konvalinka, ..., & Vuust (2021). Transient brain networks underlying interpersonal strategies during synchronized action. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Heggli, Konvalinka, Kringelbach, & Vuust (2019). Musical interaction is influenced by underlying predictive models and musical expertise. Scientific reports.
Heggli, Cabral, ..., & Kringelbach. (2019). A Kuramoto model of self-other integration across interpersonal synchronization strategies. PLoS computational biology.
Morillon, & Baillet (2017). Motor origin of temporal predictions in auditory attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rosso, Maes, & Leman (2021). Modality-specific attractor dynamics in dyadic entrainment. Scientific Reports.
Vuust, Heggli, Friston, & Kringelbach (2022). Music in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

See the painting with the 'false' line at 7:30 in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOfGX6KSiX8&t=458s
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w
The last part with frequent time signature changes starts at 30:07.
A survivor from Warsaw by Schoenberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNz76YFmEQ
3rd movement of Sinfonia by Berio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YU-V2C4ryU
Beatles Documentary by Peter Jackson (Get Back): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9735318/
Blame it on the Boogie, by The Jacksons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxVMLVe62U

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland is senior editor at Nature, where she edits submissions in the behavioural sciences and cognitive neuroscience. In this conversation, we talk about how she became an editor, what editors do all day, how to improve your submissions, the future of publishing at Nature, the harp, and much more.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
0:00:00: Introduction
0:05:51: How Mary Elizabeth started playing the harp
0:11:19: Harp music recommendations
0:13:09: How Mary Elizabeth became senior editor at Nature
0:18:11: What do editors do all day?
0:31:04: What's the difference between Nature, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports?
0:38:53: How representative do samples need to be for Nature?
0:44:12: What exactly is a cover letter for?
0:50:43: Common errors in submissions
0:56:11: Why do the official PDFs of papers have unidentifiable names?
0:59:11: Do we still need journals?
1:04:07: Will Nature offer Registered Reports?

Podcast links

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

Mary Elizabeth's links

• Website: https://geni.us/sutherland-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/Sutherland-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/Sutherland-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

Harp music
Carlos Salzedo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Salzedo
playing his composition Scintillation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8bA1XXQpM
Lucile Lawrence (her teacher):  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Lawrence
performing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_-Omk_bl0

An example of Kora music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLAwAOi-hA


Episode with Hugo Spiers: https://geni.us/bjks-spiers
Episode with Michael Hornberger: https://geni.us/bjks-hornberger

Talk Mary Elizabeth gave that I found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akzsfqwJiw

Papers mentioned
Aiken, E., Bellue, S., Karlan, D. et al. Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid. Nature (2022).
Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Ho, T. H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., ... & Wu, H. (2018). Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015. Nature Human Behaviour.
Coutrot, A., Manley, E., Goodroe, S. et al. Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability. Nature (2022).
Douaud, G., Lee, S., Alfaro-Almagro, F. et al. SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank. Nature (2022).

Angelika Stefan is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam in the Psychological Methods group (lead by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers). In this conversation, we talk about her preprint 'Big little lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies', which she just uploaded to PsyArXiv. We also discuss how she created the Shiny App that allows users to play around with the simulations and run simulations that didn't make it into the paper.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
00:05: How did Angelika start working on her paper 'Big little lies'
05:22: P-hacking and human error
07:47: Different p-hacking strategies
29:34: What are good solutions against p-hacking?
40:56: Future directions for this kind of research
45:32: How to make a Shiny Apps

Podcast links

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

Angelika's links

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

• Stefan, A., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2022, March 16). Big Little Lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xy2dk
•  Wicherts, J. M., Veldkamp, C. L. S., Augusteijn, H. E. M., Bakker, M., van Aert, R. C. M., & van Assen, M. A. L. M. (2016). Degrees of freedom in planning, running, analyzing, and reporting psychological studies: A checklist to avoid p-hacking. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01832
• Their Shiny App: https://shiny.psy.lmu.de/felix/ShinyPHack/
•  Shiny tutorial videos: https://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/
• As Predicted preregistration template: https://aspredicted.org/

Jessica Flake is Assistant Professor for quantitative psychology and modeling at McGill University, where she studies measurement. In this conversation, we talk about her recent paper 'Measurement Schmeasurement:  Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them' (with former guest of the podcast Eiko Fried), how she makes stats lectures interesting, and her work on the Psychological Science Accellarator.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
0:00:04: Eiko Fried is maybe not that good at p-hacking
0:02:03: How Jessica got into researching measurement
0:10:42: The title of 'Measurement Schmeasurement'
0:16:15: So what is Schmeasurement?
0:24:47: How does Jessica ('literally the best prof ever') make statistics engaging?
0:43:02: Is transparency the solution to schmeasurement?
0:49:56: Was I measuring or schmeasuring in my recent paper?
1:03:39: The next generation of the open science movement
1:15:15: What's it like working on large collaborative projects like The Psychological Science Accelerator?

Podcast links

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

Jessica's links

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

Ben's links

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

References

My episode with Eiko Fried: https://geni.us/bjks-fried
The Twitter thread that started schmeasurement: https://twitter.com/JkayFlake/status/917514276893536257

Axelrod (1980). Effective choice in the prisoner's dilemma. Journal of conflict resolution.
Flake & Fried (2020). Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Flake, Pek, & Hehman (2017). Construct validation in social and personality research: Current practice and recommendations. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Flake, Davidson, Wong, & Pek (2022). Construct validity and the validity of replication studies: A systematic review.
Kuper-Smith, Doppelhofer, Oganian, Rosenblau, & Korn (2021). Risk perception and optimism during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society open science.
Moshontz, ... & Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaborative network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Nosek, Beck, Campbell, Flake, Hardwicke, Mellor, ... & Vazire (2019). Preregistration is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in cognitive sciences.
Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological science.

Chris Chambers is professor at Cardiff University where he is Head of Brain Stimulation. He is also one of the pioneers behind Registered Reports, a type of article where researchers receive peer review and in-principle acceptance before the results are known. In this conversation, we focus on Registered Reports and talk about how Chris got Registered Reports started at Cortex, how the review process differs between Registered Reports and regular papers, whether they are suited for scientists on short-term contracts, and what the future holds for Registered Reports and scientific publishing in general.

 BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). 

Timestamps
 01:51: What are Registered Reports?
07:24: How Chris got Registered Reports started
16:33: Reviewing Registered Reports and regular papers
25:23: Evaluating whether Registered Reports work
28:52: Are Registered Reports feasible on short-term contracts / scheduled reviews
38:50: Peer Community In Registered Reports / authors can choose which journal to publish their Registered Report in
50:25: Do we even need journals?
54:18: Does Chris ever get tired talking about Registered Reports? 

Podcast links

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

Chris's links

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

Ben's links

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

References
http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2012/10/changing-culture-of-scientific.html
Chambers, C. (2019). The seven deadly sins of psychology. Princeton University Press.
Chambers, C. D. (2013). Registered reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex. Cortex, 49(3), 609-610.
Chambers, C. D., & Tzavella, L. (2021). The past, present and future of Registered Reports. Nature human behaviour, 1-14.
https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports
Hardwicke, T. E., & Ioannidis, J. (2018). Mapping the universe of registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(11), 793-796.
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#Geometrization_and_Poincar%C3%A9_conjectures
Soderberg, C. K., Errington, T. M., Schiavone, S. R., Bottesini, J., Thorn, F. S., Vazire, S., ... & Nosek, B. A. (2021). Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 990-997.

In this conversation, I talk with Toby Wise about applying for postdoc fellowships. Toby has received and completed the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, where he worked with Ray Dolan and Dean Mobbs. He answers some of the questions I have about applying for postdoc fellowships in general, such as how to write a proposal, how to contact potential supervisors/sponsors for your application, when to start, and what kind of scientist a fellowship is even for.

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.).

Podcast links

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

Toby's links

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

Ben's links

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

Links for stuff mentioned

• My episode about applying for postdoc jobs with Matthias: https://geni.us/bjks-postdoc-stangl
• Toby's 2 blog posts about postdoc fellowship applications:
  • First post: https://geni.us/wise-postdoc-blog-1
  • Second post: https://geni.us/wise-postdoc-blog-2
• A postdoc fellowship database: https://ecrcentral.org/fundings
•  Twitter thread that I read out loud: https://twitter.com/birchlse/status/1491006458993209352
•  The masters's degree I did at UCL and in Paris: https://geni.us/ucl-brain-mind-msc

People mentioned

• Steve Fleming: https://geni.us/fleming-web
• Demis Hassabis: https://geni.us/hassabis-wiki
• Day Dolan: https://geni.us/dolan-web
• Peter Dayan: https://geni.us/dayan-web
• Dominik Bach: https://geni.us/bach-web
• Dean Mobbs: https://geni.us/mobbs-web

References

• Deisseroth, K. (2011). Optogenetics. Nature methods.
• Friston, K. J., Stephan, K. E., Montague, R., & Dolan, R. J. (2014). Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ. The Lancet Psychiatry.
• Montague, P. R., Dolan, R. J., Friston, K. J., & Dayan, P. (2012). Computational psychiatry. Trends in cognitive sciences.
• Steinmetz, N. A., Koch, C., Harris, K. D., & Carandini, M. (2018). Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes. Current opinion in neurobiology.
• Wang, X. J., & Krystal, J. H. (2014). Computational psychiatry. Neuron.

Hugo Spiers is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London.  His research explores how our brain constructs representations of the world and uses them to recall the past, navigate the present and imagine the future. In this episode, we talk about his work on Sea Hero Quest (with Michael Hornberger, former guest of this podcast), his new research project Taxi Brains, the difficulties and joys of working with more than one species, and cognitive maps in humans.

Time stamps
0:00:05: Dealing with email
0:04:42: Sea Hero Quest
0:25:53: Taxi Brains project
0:55:18: The difficulties and benefits of working with humans and non-human animals in the same lab
1:11:48: Discussing Hugo's review "The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond"

Podcast links

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

Hugo's links

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

Ben's links

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

Episodes mentioned during our conversation:
Michael Hornberger: https://geni.us/bjks-hornberger
Kate Jeffery: https://geni.us/bjks-jeffery

References
Bellmund, Gärdenfors, Moser, & Doeller (2018). Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking. Science.
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.
Epstein, Patai, Julian, & Spiers (2017). The cognitive map in humans: spatial navigation and beyond. Nature neuroscience.
Gardenfors (2004). Conceptual spaces: The geometry of thought. MIT press.
Gardner, Hermansen, Pachitariu, Burak, Baas, Dunn, ... & Moser (2022). Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Nature.
Griesbauer, Manley, Wiener, & Spiers (2022). London taxi drivers: A review of neurocognitive studies and an exploration of how they build their cognitive map of London. Hippocampus.
Jacobs, Weidemann, ... & Kahana (2013). Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature neuroscience.
Lever, ... & Burgess (2009). Boundary vector cells in the subiculum of the hippocampal formation. Journal of Neuroscience.
Maguire, ... & Frith (2000). Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Newport (2021). A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever. Penguin UK.
O'keefe, & Nadel (1978). The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Oxford university press.
Solomon, Lega, Sperling, & Kahana (2019). Hippocampal theta codes for distances in semantic and temporal spaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser, & Moser. (2008). Representation of geometric borders in the entorhinal cortex. Science.
Spiers (2020). The hippocampal cognitive map: one space or many? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological review.

This is the 50th episode of this podcast and we're doing something a little different: Cody Kommers, PhD student, fellow podcaster, and one of the first guests of my podcast, interviewed me about the first year of my podcast: what did I learn, what went differently than expected, and what do I plan on changing in the future? We also discuss podcasting more generally and use Cody's experience in running his podcasts as a counterexample in our discussion.

Time stamps
0:00:05: Cody's introduction
0:01:37: Why did I start the podcast?
0:04:32: Expectation vs reality of running a podcast
0:12:05: Other podcasts I enjoy and that influenced me
0:26:50: What am I trying to do when I'm interviewing someone?
0:36:03: Who's the target audience for this podcast?
0:43:22: The podcast's format
0:47:19: How could I save time doing the podcast?
1:02:52: Distribution and marketing of podcasts
1:15:35: Focussing the scope of my topics
1:31:25: The future of this podcast

Podcast links

• Website: https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BjksPodcast

Cody's links

• Website: https://www.codykommers.com/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ImTtx_kAAAAJ
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/codykommers
• Newsletter: https://codykommers.substack.com/

Ben's links

• Website: www.bjks.blog/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-nWNfvcAAAAJ
• Twitter:  https://twitter.com/bjks_tweets

Other podcasts/interviewers mentioned (in order of mention):
This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman
Joe Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk
Tim Ferriss: https://tim.blog/podcast/
Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts
Oprah Winfrey: https://www.oprah.com/
Charlie Rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJpyJeynU_E&list=PLf0rWsvaclOIfJaGY9xNGrh9lxLQgD2tL
Revisionist History: https://www.pushkin.fm/show/revisionist-history/
Opinion Science: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/
The Turnaround: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-turnaround-with-jesse-thorn/
On Being: https://onbeing.org/
The Life Scientific: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7
Very Bad Wizards: https://www.verybadwizards.com/