Cog-Hz Podcast

Welcome back to another episode of Cog-Hz! 

Today we have with us a very special guest, Professor Leslee Lazar!

You will get to hear about:

A Cognitive Neuroscientist & Visual artist by skills, and by profession, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Science at IIT, Gandhinagar. He is well-versed in multisensory tactile perception, aesthetic perception and design creativity. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from National Brain Research Centre, India and a post-doc from Harvard Medical School.

He is also the author of a really cool science book called ‘Super Animal & their Super Senses’. A fun-fact filled science book for young adults. Apart from exercising his creativity in research, he also spreads it across a canvas. His work embodies the intersection of science, art and culture. You can check his work out in links attached in the description below.

Prof Leslee's website: https://lesleelazar.com/

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Cog-Hz! 

Today, we will discuss about virtual reality and why you should look into it if you wear your cogSci researcher hat!

Links Associated with this episode:

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VR & Positive Emotions: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.788820/full

VR pain reduction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66035-4

Embodied cognition: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.826241/full

VR Exposure Therapy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823515/

VR with Chimpanzees: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm4754

Welcome back to Cog-Hz!

Today we have with us a very special guest with whom we will kickstart this season, Percy Mistry.

You will get to hear about:

A computational cognitive neuroscientist. He is currently a Research Scholar at the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Lab. He did his postdoc training in Computational Neuroscience at Stanford University. He has a Ph.D and a Master’s degree in Computational cognitive science from University of California Irvine. 

He also has an MBA in Finance, Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai, India. And has 10 years of work experience at HSBC in various roles in Mumbai and Hong Kong.

Links to Percy's work :

Percy Mistry’s profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/percy-mistry

Paper: https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0158/0158.pdf

Hello & welcome back to another episode of Cog-Hz! Today’s episode is a very very special one!

Today, we have a very special guest and our very first guest on the podcast!

He’s none other than Arturo Deza!!

If you jump onto his Twitter profile you could see the description of a Robot Ophthalmologist and through the course of this interview, we hope to get a better sense of his vision in Research. 

Listen to get a better sense of vision, cognition, and hey, all you grad students, listen to this to get a better idea about how to form your research interests!

Links to Arturo's work & stuff mentioned in the podcast:

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Arturo’s website: http://arturodeza.wikidot.com/

Arturo’s talk on Perceptual Invariance in Humans and Machines, CBMM summer school: https://cbmm.mit.edu/video/perceptual-invariance-humans-and-machines

A recent paper on peripheral vision: https://openreview.net/forum?id=yeP_zx9vqNm

Benefits of peripheral vision: https://news.mit.edu/2022/machine-peripheral-vision-0302

Hey, welcome back to another episode of CogHz. Today we are talking about, talking. Yes. Talking about talking, through a medium of talking. 

This talking of ours is the dance of words. A salsa of words. Or. A. TANGO OF WORDS.  The way of talking is called Lingo. Hence a tango of lingo. Lingo Tango. How do we study this lingo? Well, through linguistics.

Listen to find out how language affects cognition.

Links Associated with this episode:

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Whorf Hypothesis: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-esc-introtocollegereadingandwriting/chapter/linguistic-relativity-the-whorf-hypothesis/

Biases in cognition through language: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-biolinguistic-turn/201702/how-the-language-we-speak-affects-the-way-we-think

Arrival & Sapir Whorf: https://medium.com/tamek/sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-its-implications-in-the-movie-arrival-9b4b1d509dbc

Heyy! Welcome to another episode of Cog-Hz! Today we are going to be talking about Eyes! Yes only about eyes - an isolated discussion about eyes. That’s why “eye”-isolated.

Are you wondering how eyes are related to cognition? How the saying ‘eyes are the windows to the soul’ is actually quite true?

Keep listening to know more!

Links mentioned in the episode:

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Why do people move their eyes when they think? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721412436810

Yarbus, eye movements, and vision: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563050/

Visual Perceptions: https://statisquoxaviers.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/the/

Heyy welcome back to another episode of cogHz with Chetan and Rakshita!

Today we are going to talk about culture. Not the one biologists painstakingly prepare in their labs.

We are talking about the culture which maps social behavior and has passed on to you from generations!

Links Mentioned in the episode:

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/culture-cogsci

Memes: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Of-mind-memes-and-brain-bugs%3B-a-natural-history-of-Delius/2fcc8c9a21976be56e5d36bfa2ebd9bced61a8b4

Cultural influences on neural substrates of attentional control: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18181784/

Cultural Neuroscience: Biology of the Mind in Cultural Contexts:  https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115040#_i15

Hey! Welcome back to another episode of CogHz!

Today we’ll wear the hats of storytellers and narrate to you the Legends of Neural Mishaps. A couple of stories of how our peculiar brain harvests some quirky mishaps and we’ll see where and why does it happen in the brain?

What you’ll hear today might sound like fiction

but it's our funny brain that makes these fictional instances a reality!

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Links:

The woman suffering from Congenital Insensitivity to Pain: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crinm/2014/141953/

The woman who sees dragons: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-woman-who-looked-at-faces-and-saw-dragons

In today’s episode, we will see a movement. A revolution. What’s it? Connectionism!!!

To know how Avengers could get incorporated into a concept of Cognitive Science, how your digestive system could be correlated to an algorithm? REALLLY? All of this?

YES! Listen to this episode to find out about Connectionism and more.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

Literature on Connectionism:      https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism

Backpropagation paper:              https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vincentp/ift3395/lectures/backprop_old.pdf

Limitations of Connectionism:    http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/papers/neuring.pdf

Welcome to the first episode of our show called Cog-Hz, where two cognitive science students share their nuggests about the field.

In this episode we talk about elements of risks when taking decisions. We also talk about associated interaction between uncertainty, aversions and neural correlates.

Why Cog-Hz, wait to to find out in this episode!

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Links mentioned in this episode:

Risk averse vs seeking: https://www.allbusiness.com/risk-taker-or-risk-averse-4968003-1.html

Genetics factors: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/genetics-predispose-us-to-take-risks-or-avoid-them/

Neural correlates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2794196/#__ffn_sectitle

Influence of personality: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2020.1750455

Big 5 test: https://bigfive-test.com/