Cog-Hz Podcast

Interview Series: Percy Mistry | Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist | Mind Brain and Everything in Between

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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:

  • Interesting pathway into Cog Sci
  • The ecosystem needed to nurture research
  • How to collab in research without too many cooks spoiling the broth.
  • Mind-body problem to go easy on your brain.
  • Super cool analogies to study the developing mind
  • In-depth analysis of “How much to purchase?-A cognitive adaptive decision-making account”
  • Hedonic utility
  • Cool perks of being a neuroscientist!!

    • 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

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