Brain Inspired

By Paul MiddlebrooksScience Technology Education Natural Sciences

Brain Inspired episodes

March 06, 2019BI 029 Paul Humphreys & Zac Irving: Emergence & Mind Wandering
Show notes:
Paul Humphreys' website.
Zac Irving's website.
Emergence:
Emergence: A Philosophical Account. (book by Paul)
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science.
Mind Wandering:
Mind-Wandering is Unguided Attention.
The Philosophy of Mind-Wandering.
The Neuroscience of Spontaneous Thought.
1 hr 45 min
February 19, 2019BI 028 Sam Gershman: Free Energy Principle & Human Machines
Show notes:
Sam's Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
Follow Sam on Twitter: @gershbrain.
The papers we discuss:
What does the free energy principle tell us about the brain?
Building machines that learn and think like people.
A video summarizing that work.
The book Sam recommended: What Is Thought by Eric Baum.
1 hr 15 min
February 12, 2019BI 027 Ioana Marinescu & Konrad Kording: Causality in Quasi-Experiments
Show notes:
Websites: Ioana Marinescu, Konrad Kording
Twitter: Twitter: @mioana; @KordingLab
The paper we discuss:
Quasi-experimental causality in neuroscience and behavioral research.
A Pre-print version.
Judea Pearl's The Book of Why.
Judea Pearl's online lecture about causality: The Art and Science of Cause and Effect.
Ioana's review of Universal Basic Income: No Strings Attached.
The post on hedge drift by Stefan Schubert: Hedge drift and advanced motte-and-bailey.
Books recommended by Ioana and Konrad to understand causality:
Mostly Harmless Econometrics.
Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect.
1 hr 21 min
January 31, 2019BI 026 Kendrick Kay: A Model By Any Other Name
Image courtesy of Kendrick Kay: Brain art
Show notes:
Check out Kendrick’s lab website: CVN lab.
Follow him on twitter: @cvnlab.
The papers we discuss:
Bottom-up and top-down computations in word- and face-selective cortex.
Principles for models of neural information processing.
Appreciating diversity of goals in computational neuroscience.
A nice talk about the model we discuss: Bottom Up and Top Down Computations in Word- and Face-Selective Cortex
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference.
1 hr 23 min
January 25, 2019BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding Cognition
Show notes
BLAM (Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement) Lab homepage: http://blam-lab.org/
BLAM on Twitter: @blamlab
Papers we discuss:
Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias.
John and his brother David’s interview in Current Biology: John and David Krakauer
Mark Humphries’ piece on John’s “Neuroscience Needs Behavior” paper.
Tinbergen’s 4 Questions.
John’s book on stroke recovery: Broken Movement: The Neurobiology of Motor Recovery after Stroke (The MIT Press).
David Marr’s classic work, Vision.
More is Different by Phillip Anderson, and the hierarchical nature of scientific disciplines.
Understanding Scientific Understanding by Henk W. De Regt.
Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasock Chang.
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey.
The Organisation of Mind by Tim Shallice and Richard Cooper.
1 hr 47 min
January 15, 2019BI 024 Tim Behrens: Cognitive Maps
Show notes:
Tim’s Neuroscience homepage:
Follow Tim on Twitter: @behrenstim.
Edward Tolman’s cognitive maps work:
Cognitive maps in rats and men.
Place Cells and Grid Cells:
O’Keefe early place cell paper: The Hippocampus as a Spatial Map.
O’Keefe’s book about the work: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.
Mosers and their students discover grid cells: Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex.
Overview.
Here’s a good talk Tim gives on the subject: Building models of the world for behavioural control.
Tim’s papers we discuss:
What is a cognitive map? (Neuron, 2018)
Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code (Science, 2016)
Two of the books he recommended:
Theoretical Neuroscience by Dayan and Abbott.
Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay.
1 hr 10 min
December 28, 2018BI 023 Marcel van Gerven: Mind Decoding with GANs
Show notes:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Artificial Cognitive Systems on Twitter.
Artificial Cognitive Systems research group.
The paper we discuss:
Generative adversarial networks for reconstructing natural images from brain activity.
Read their Mindcodec blog.
Nice overview of GANs (appropriately titled): Generative Adversarial Networks: An Overview.
1 hr 5 min
December 18, 2018BI 022 Melanie Mitchell: Complexity, and AI Shortcomings
Show notes:
Follow Melanie on Twitter: @MelMitchell1.
Learn more about what she does at her homepage.
Here is her New York Times Op-Ed about AI.
And here is a talk which goes into more depth: AI and the Barrier of Meaning.
Her book, Complexity: A Guided Tour, has won awards.
Check out all the free coures and tutorials at Complexity Explorer.
Here’s a talk she gave: Introduction to Complexity.
Melanie’s PhD advisor was Douglas Hofstadter, author of Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid.
I mentioned Terrence Deacon’s book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.
1 hr
December 11, 2018BI 021 Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience and AI at DeepMind
Show notes:
DeepMind.
The papers we discuss:
Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.
A nice summary of the meta-reinforcement learning work.
Learning to reinforcement learn.
Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system.
Machine Theory of Mind.
Reinforcement learning.
1 hr 20 min
November 29, 2018BI 020 Anna Wexler: Stimulate Your Brain?
Show notes:
Anna’s website: annawexler.com.
Follow Anna on Twitter: @anna_wexler.
Check out her documentary Unorthodox.
The papers we discuss:
Recurrent themes in the history of the home use of electrical stimulation: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and the medical battery (1870–1920).
The Social Context of “Do-It-Yourself” Brain Stimulation: Neurohackers, Biohackers, and Lifehackers.
Who Uses Direct-to-Consumer Brain Stimulation Products, and Why? A Study of Home Users of tDCS Devices.
Mind-Reading or Misleading? Assessing Direct-to-Consumer Electroencephalography (EEG) Devices Marketed for Wellness and Their Ethical and Regulatory Implications.
Anna mentioned consumerlab.com as a great place see what’s really in the supplements you take.
p300 ERP component as a signature of a person’s reaction to a stimulus.
1 hr 10 min

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