Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

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Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science episodes

  • S3 #38 How can AI model the sensorimotor system? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Tonio Weidler.

    Related papers:

    Weidler, T. (2025). The mechanism at hand: A goal-driven approach to modeling the human sensorimotor system. (https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/the-mechanism-at-hand-a-goal-driven-approach-to-modeling-the-huma)

    Doerig, A., Sommers, R.P., Seeliger, K. et al. The neuroconnectionist research programme. Nat Rev Neurosci 24, 431–450 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-023-00705-w

    Kriegeskorte, N., Douglas, P.K. Cognitive computational neuroscience. Nat Neurosci 21, 1148–1160 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0210-5

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
    Write us an email to: [email protected]
    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    1 hr 6 min
  • S2 #37 Does social media shape trans identity and coming out? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Gen Eickers.

    References:

    Briggs, R. A., & George, B. R. (2023). What even is gender? (p. 196). Taylor & Francis.
    Eickers, G. Social Media Experiences of LGBTQ+ People: Enabling Feelings of Belonging. Topoi 43, 617–630 (2024).
    https://tgeu.org/

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
    Write us an email to: [email protected]
    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    40 min
  • S2 #36 What does Kant have to do with Gender and Feminism? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Carol Hay.

    References:

    https://www.carolhay.org/

    Hay, C. (2020). Think like a feminist: the philosophy behind the revolution. WW Norton & Company.

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk

    Logo by: Annika Richter

    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    Write us an email to: [email protected]

    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    1 hr 40 min
  • S2 #35 How do gender stereotypes affect non-binary people? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Robert-Paul Juster & Mina Guérin.

    Literature:

    Guérin, M., Saulnier, F., Cartier, L., Hirnstein, M., Hétu, S., & Juster, R. P. (2025). Explicit Gender Stereotypes and Sexually Polymorphic Cognition by Gender Identity.

    https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/04/09/who-does-what-better-a-non-binary-view/

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
    Write us an email to: [email protected]
    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    1 hr 10 min
  • S2 #33 How can modeling our decisions improve our lives? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Nadja R. Ging-Jehli.

    Literature:

    Forstmann, B. U., Ratcliff, R., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2016). Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions. Annual Review of Psychology, 67(1), 641–666.

    Forstmann, B. U., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience: A Conceptual Introduction. In B. U. Forstmann & E.-J. Wagenmakers (Eds.), An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 139–156). Springer.

    Ging Jehli, N. R., Arnold, L. E., & Van Zandt, T. (2023). Cognitive & attentional mechanisms of cooperation: Implications for incentive designs and computational psychiatry.

    Ging-Jehli, N. R., Kuhn, M., Blank, J. M., Chanthrakumar, P., Steinberger, D. C., Yu, Z., Herrington, T. M., Dillon, D. G., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Frank, M. J. (2024). Cognitive signatures of depressive and anhedonic symptoms, and affective states, using computational modeling and neurocognitive testing. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, S2451-9022(24)00056-9.

    Ging-Jehli, N. R., Ratcliff, R., & Arnold, L. E. (2021). Improving neurocognitive testing using computational psychiatry—A systematic review for ADHD. Psychological Bulletin, 147(2), 169–231.

    Ratcliff, R. (1978). A theory of memory retrieval. Psychological Review, 85(2), 59–108.

    Smith, P. L., & Ratcliff, R. (2004). Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions. Trends in Neurosciences, 27(3), 161–168.

    Van Zandt, T. (2002). Analysis of Response Time Distributions. In Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Methodology in Experimental Psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 461–516). John Wiley & Sons.

    Wald, A., & Wolfowitz, J. (1949). Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 35(2), 99–102.

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
    Write us an email to: [email protected]
    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    58 min
  • S2 #30 What happens when we make music? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Jesper Hohagen.

    (1) influence of the mozart effect on US-american education politics in the case of Georgia 1998 (New York Times article from 1998)

    (2) link between music and neuroendocrinology (two reviews)

    Kreutz, Gunter, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, and Stephan Bongard, 'Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview', in Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell (eds), Music, Health, and Wellbeing (Oxford, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0030,

    Harvey AR (2020) Links Between the Neurobiology of Oxytocin and Human Musicality. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14:350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00350

    (3) perception of prototypical (musical) movements and the relevance of fluency/smoothness

    Wöllner, C., Deconinck, F. J. A., Parkinson, J., Hove, M. J., & Keller, P. E. (2012). The perception of prototypical motion: Synchronization is enhanced with quantitatively morphed gestures of musical conductors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1390–1403. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028130

    Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & Winkielman, P. (2021). The architecture of prototype preferences: Typicality, fluency, and valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 187–194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000798

    (4) discussion on lullabies as a musical universal

    Aubinet, S. (2024). Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review. Cross-Cultural Research, 58(5), 411-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971241272406

    (5) functional approach to musical gestures

    Dahl, S., Bevilacqua, F., & Bresin, R. (2010). Gestures in performance. In musical Gestures (pp. 48-80). Routledge.

    (6) “chior effect”

    Kreutz, G., Bongard, S., Rohrmann, S., Hodapp, V., & Grebe, D. (2004). Effects of choir singing or listening on secretory immunoglobulin A, cortisol, and emotional state. Journal of behavioral medicine, 27, 623-635.

    (7) Musical proto language

    Fitch, W. T. (2010). The evolution of language. Cambridge University Press.

    (8) book recommendation

    Podcast Credits:

    Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk

    Logo by: Annika Richter

    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    Write us an email to: [email protected]

    Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

    1 hr 3 min

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Kaleidoscience is a podcast interviewing guests across the field of Cognitive Science. We explore questions such as what it means to be conscious, what AI might think, how the brain processes language - and much more. Find the answers to questions you may or may not have asked yourself.