Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

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Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science episodes

  • S2 #20 What can we do about chronic back pain? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Janosch Priebe.

    For our first episode in our thematic block about pain we talked to Dr. Janosch Priebe. In this episode, he goes into detail about chronic pain, how it is different to acute pain and treatment options.

    References:

    McCarberg, B., & Peppin, J. (2019). Pain pathways and nervous system plasticity: learning and memory in pain. Pain Medicine, 20(12), 2421-2437.
    Horn‐Hofmann, C., Scheel, J., Dimova, V., Parthum, A., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., … & Lautenbacher, S. (2018). Prediction of persistent post‐operative pain: Pain‐specific psychological variables compared with acute post‐operative pain and general psychological variables. European Journal of Pain, 22(1), 191-202.
    Priebe, J. A., Kerkemeyer, L., Haas, K. K., Achtert, K., Moreno Sanchez, L. F., Stockert, P., … & Toelle, T. R. (2024). Medical app treatment of non-specific low back pain in the 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial rise-uP: where clinical superiority meets cost savings. Journal of Pain Research, 2239-2255.
    Toelle, T. R., Utpadel-Fischler, D. A., Haas, K. K., & Priebe, J. A. (2019). App-based multidisciplinary back pain treatment versus combined physiotherapy plus online education: a randomized controlled trial. NPJ digital medicine, 2(1), 34.

    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

    57 min
  • Has it been a year already? Bonus-to-brain with Sophie, Elisa and Sönke

    And with this, our first season comes to an end.

    In our last episode before our summer break, we're talking about one year of podcasting - and honestly: what a year it was!

    We're taking some weeks of and will be back with new episodes in September.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

    Logo by: Annika Richter

    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    1 hr 17 min
  • S1 #19 How does the world shape our emotions? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. phil. Achim Stephan.

    References:

    Jacobs, Kerrin, Achim Stephan, Asena Paskaleva & Wendy Wilutzky (2014). Existential and Atmospheric Feelings in Depressive Comportment. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 21(2), 89-110 (erschienen im März 2015).

    Ratcliffe, M. 2008. Feelings of being. Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Scherer, Klaus (2005). What are emotions? Social Science Information, 44, 695–729.

    Slaby, J. (2016). Mind invasion: Situated affectivity and the corporate life hack. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 266. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg. 2016.00266

    Stephan, Achim (2017). Moods in Layers. Philosophia 45, 1481-1495. doi: 10.1007/s11406-017-9841-0

    Stephan, A., & Walter, S. (2020). Situated affectivity. In T. Szanto, & H. Landweer (Eds.), The routledge handbook of the phenomenology of emotion (pp. 299–311). Routledge.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

    Logo by: Annika Richter

    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    1 hr 9 min
  • S1 #18 What makes science to be good? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Michael Franke.

    Why do psychologists need statistics if they study the human mind?

    Professor Michael Franke studied and taught at Osnabrück University and now teaches at the University of Tübingen. He explains how his scientific pathway led him to study language and formal logic to better understand underlying statistical ideas. He explains the importance of methods in the field of cognitive science and the large impact they have on our understanding of the world.

    Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the relevance of statistics, why it actually is fascinating to do statistics and where we might need to change our minds when it comes to teaching basic knowledge in the university context.

    Correction:

    “The ‘hard-headed cowboy … with a Stradivarius violin’ is NOT by Popper himself, but used by Peter Godfrey-Smith in his book ‘Theory & Reality’ as a description of Popper’s views.”
    Credits:
    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    1 hr
  • S1 #17 How can AI decode the brain’s messages to move? Brain-to-brain with Mo Nipshagen.

    Did you know that your brain keeps sending signals to move your limbs even when your paralyzed?

    Mo Nipshagen is a PhD candidate at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. Together with their colleagues, they develop Brain-Computer-Interfaces to enable locked-in and paralyzed patients to interact with the world around them.
    Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the future of paralysis treatment and how computers can interact with the human brain.

    Resources:

    Berezutskaya, J., Saive, AL., Jerbi, K., Gerven, M.v. (2023). How Does Artificial Intelligence Contribute to iEEG Research?. In: Axmacher, N. (eds) Intracranial EEG. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20910-9_47

    Vansteensel, M.J., Pels, E.G., Bleichner, M.G., Branco, M.P., Denison, T.J., Freudenburg, Z.V., Gosselaar, P., Leinders, S., Ottens, T.H., van den Boom, M.A., van Rijen, P.C., Aarnoutse, E.J., & Ramsey, N.F. (2016). Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS. The New England journal of medicine, 375 21, 2060-2066. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1608085

    Anumanchipalli, G.K., Chartier, J., & Chang, E.F. (2019). Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature, 568, 493 – 498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1119-1

    Ottenhoff, M. C., Verwoert, M., Goulis, S., Colon, A. J., Wagner, L., Tousseyn, S., van Dijk, J. P., Kubben, P. L., & Herff, C. (2023). Decoding executed and imagined grasping movements from distributed non-motor brain areas using a Riemannian decoder. In Frontiers in Neuroscience (Vol. 17). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1283491

    https://www.intenseproject.eu

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge
    Logo by: Annika Richter
    Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

    1 hr
  • S1 #15 Can computers be creative? Brain-to-brain with Assistant Prof. Philipp Wicke.

    What does it mean for a system to be creative? Can humans and machines be creative together? How has the definition of machine creativity changed over the years?

    Philipp Wicke is an Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München and is asking exactly these questions in his research.
    Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about creative computers and how they have developed and further evolved over the past years!

    References:

    • Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and artificial intelligence.” Artificial intelligence 103.1-2 (1998): 347-356.
    • Ventura, Dan. “Mere generation: Essential barometer or dated concept.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity. Sony CSL, 2016.
    • Gervás, Pablo. “Computational approaches to storytelling and creativity.” AI Magazine 30.3 (2009): 49-49.
    • Veale, Tony. “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4411-8172-5.” (2017): 52-54.
    • Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The embodied mind, revised edition: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT press, 2017.
    • Newen, Albert, Leon De Bruin, and Shaun Gallagher, eds. The Oxford handbook of 4E cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018.
    • Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Elena Clare Cuffari, and Hanne De Jaegher. Linguistic bodies: The continuity between life and language. MIT press, 2018.

      • Credits:

      Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

      Logo by: Annika Richter

      Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

      1 hr 2 min
    • S1 #14 What is autism? A multifaceted perspective. Brain-to-brain with Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan.

      We had the pleasure to talk to Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan about autism.

      We discuss autistic traits, what neurodiversity and neurotypical means and neuronal differences in autistic people.

      Muhib tells us more about problems people with autism might face in everyday life, quiet hours in the supermarket and some advantages.

       

      Mentioned / Recommended literature:

      Paper:

      Pellicano, E., & Burr, D. (2012). When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(10), 504-510.

      Baron‐Cohen, S. (2017). Editorial Perspective: Neurodiversity–a revolutionary concept for autism and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(6), 744-747.

      Farmer, G. D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W. J. (2017). People with autism spectrum conditions make more consistent decisions. Psychological science, 28(8), 1067-1076.

      Hu, Y., Pereira, A. M., Gao, X., Campos, B. M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., … & Dreher, J. C. (2021). Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1699-1715.

      Tezcan I. M. (2024). Autism Beyond Deficits: Embracing Neurodiversity in Research. https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/psychology/autism-beyond-deficits-embracing-neurodiversity-in-research/

      Books:

      Silberman, S. (2017). Neurotribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently. Atlantic Books.

      Grandin, T., & Panek, R. (2013). The autistic brain: Thinking across the spectrum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

       

      Credits:

      Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

      Logo by: Annika Richter
      Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

      58 min
    • S1 #13 How is AI misused for image based violence? Brain-to-brain with Annemarie Witschas.

      If you are a victim of sexual digital violence and need help here are some rescources:

      [ENG+] https://stopncii.org/

      [ENG/GER] https://www.uni-jena.de/en/university/central-institutions/interessenvertretungen/equal-opportunities-office/information-about-equality/digital-violence-guide

      [GER] https://annanackt.com/

      What had Steve Jobs to do with the moderation of pornography? What are deepfakes?

      Annemarie Witschas did her bachelor’s thesis in the field of ethics of AI by looking at pornography. She explains what deep fake pornography is and why it is such an immense problem, especially for woman*.

      This became particularly clear in a recent case, after the episode was recorded, where deep fake pornography of Taylor Swift was created and spread across the internet. So much, that X (formerly known as twitter) blocked all searches for “#taylorswift”.
      Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about deep fakes and their horrifying use in sexually assaultive contexts.
      *woman in this context meant as people who are in a body perceived as female

      Scientific resources:

      https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/ds-202311069973/1/pics-2023-001-witschas-porn-power-and-platforms.pdf

      Credits:

      Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

      Logo by: Annika Richter
      Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

      59 min

    About Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

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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.