Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

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Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science episodes

  • S1 #12 Can we create green AI? Brain-to-brain with Cornelius Wolff.

    What is green AI? And can AI even be green?

    Sustainable use of Artificial Intelligence – what sounds like a clear conflict, is actually a multifaceted problem.
    Cornelius studies Cognitive Science and works for the DFKI (German Research Facility for Artificial Intelligence). He explains what green AI is, how AI can be used for sustainability and why some AI’s consume more energy than others. He gives us more insight into the work of the DFKI and the important aspects that come with implementing AI for sustainability.
    Listen to this episode to learn more about what enterprises can do to improve their footprint using AI!

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    48 min
  • S1 #11 Can we feel space? Brain-to-brain with Susan Wache.

    More information:

    https://www.feelspace.de

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25038534/

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34770689/

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346329375_The_impact_of_the_sensory_augmentation_device_feelSpace_belt_on_spatial_orientation_and_navigation_of_blind_people

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    50 min
  • S1 #10 Parkinson’s Disease: Just a movement disorder? Brain-to-brain with Elisa Percolla.

    Do you know someone who has Parkinson’s disease?

    It is often characterized by trembling hands, but actually has many more aspects.
    Elisa Percolla is a scientific researcher at the institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She wrote her master thesis on Parkinson’s disease and studied the brains of patients with EEG.
    During the interview Elisa describes her way into the field of cognitive science and how the broadness of the field can sometimes go hand in hand with a feeling of inaccuracy since you can never be equally good at each sub-discipline. She proceeds to explain that we should sometimes be a little more lenient with ourselves.
    Listen to this episode to learn how symptoms of Parkinson’s disease show, what underlying mechanisms are, and what the current state of research in treatment is!

    Related literature:

    – Last discoveries (EEG and alpha frequency band):
    Özkurt T. E. (2024). Abnormally low sensorimotor alpha band nonlinearity serves as an effective EEG biomarker of Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of neurophysiology, 10.1152/jn.00272.2023. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00272.2023
    – Noradrenaline and not just Dopamine: new frontier of Parkinson’s Disease Research
    Barone, P. (2010). Neurotransmission in Parkinson’s disease: Beyond dopamine.
    European journal of neurology : the official journal of the European Federation
    of Neurological Societies, 17:364–76.
    Delaville, C., De Deurwaerdère, P., and Benazzouz, A. (2011). Noradrenaline and
    Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 5:31.
    – Non-motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease (more general)
    Bodis-Wollner, I., Tzelepi, A., Sagliocco, L., Bandini, F., Mari, Z., Pierantozzi,
    A., Ogliastro, E., Kim, J., Ko, C., and Gulzar, J. (1998). Visual processing
    deficit in Parkinson’s disease, pages 606–611.
    Lees, A., Hardy, J., and Revesz, T. (2009). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in
    Parkinson’s disease. Lancet, 373(9680):2055–2066.
    Kumaresan, M. and Khan, S. (2021). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in parkin-
    son’s disease. Cureus, 13.
    Schapira, A., Ray Chaudhuri, K., and Jenner, P. (2017). Non-motor features of
    Parkinson’s disease. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18.
    Hobson, D., Lang, A., Martin, W., Razmy, A., Rivest, J., Fleming, J., Pourcher, E.,
    and Members, C. (2002). Excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset sleep
    in parkinson’s disease: A survey by the canadian movement disorders group.
    JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, 287:455–463.
    Kehagia, A. (2016). Neuropsychiatric symptoms in parkinson’s disease: Beyond
    complications. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7.
    Doty, R. (2012). Olfactory dysfunction in parkinson disease. Nature reviews.
    Neurology, 8:329–39.
    Kehagia, A., Barker, R., and Robbins, T. (2012a). Cognitive impairment in parkin-
    son’s disease: The dual syndrome hypothesis. Neuro-degenerative diseases, 11.
    – Neural correlates of motor and non-motor symptoms correspondence:
    Marquez, J., Hasan, S. M. S., Siddiquee, M., Luca, C., Mishra, V., Mari, Z., and
    Bai, O. (2020). Neural correlates of freezing of gait in parkinson’s disease: An
    electrophysiology mini-review. Frontiers in Neurology, 11.
    – Previous work on Event-related Potential Components as biomarkers of Impaired Novelty Detection in Parkinson’s Disease:
    Solıs-Vivanco, R., Ricardo-Garcell, J., Rodrıguez-Camacho, M., Prado-Alcala,
    R., Rodriguez, U., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., and Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y. (2011).
    Involuntary attention impairment in early Parkinson’s disease: An event-related
    potential study. Neuroscience letters, 495:144–9.
    Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Cervantes-Arriaga, A., Justo-Guillén,
    E., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2018). Brain oscillations reveal impaired novelty
    detection from early stages of parkinson’s disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18.
    Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y., Schilmann,
    A., Rodrıguez-Ortiz, U., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2015). The p3a wave: A re-
    liable neurophysiological measure of parkinsońs disease duration and severity.
    Clinical Neurophysiology, 126.
    Lagopoulos, J., Gordon, E., Barhamali, H., Lim, C. L., Li, W., Clouston, P., and
    Morris, J. (1998). Dysfunctions of automatic (p300a) and controlled (p300b)
    processing in Parkinson’s disease. Neurological research, 20:5–10.
    – Vibrotactile cueing and Parkinsonian Freezing of Gait
    Kaiser, V. (2021). The impact of a vibrotactile cueing device on freezing of gait
    and other gait impairments in parkinson’s disease – a longitudinal study.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    55 min
  • S1 #9 What is a Fuzzy Neural Network? Brain-to-brain with Julia Hattendorf.

    Julia Hattendorf is studying Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She found the topic for her bachelor thesis more or less by accident: While searching the internet, she stumbled across neuro-fuzzy systems. In this episode she talks about what that is and what one can do with it.

    Mentioned/Recommended papers:

    Zadeh, L. A. (1965). Fuzzy sets. Information and control, 8(3), 338-353.

    Lee, S. C., & Lee, E. T. (1975). Fuzzy neural networks. Mathematical Biosciences, 23(1-2), 151-177.

    Jang, J. S. (1993). ANFIS: adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, 23(3), 665-685.

    Talpur, N., Abdulkadir, S. J., Alhussian, H., Hasan, M. H., Aziz, N., & Bamhdi, A. (2022). A comprehensive review of deep neuro-fuzzy system architectures and their optimization methods. Neural Computing and Applications, 1-39.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    38 min
  • S1 #8 How can we get rid of our nightmares? Brain-to-brain with Katharina Lüth.

    Do you remember what you’ve been dreaming last night? At least a tiny bit of it?

    Even if some people cannot remember, most of us dream several different dreams each night. Often, those dreams are connected to what has happened during our wake life. Some of us might frequently experience rather stressful dreams, which cause us to wake up shaking or ruffled. And for some, those nightmares can be something that tremendously impacts their daily life and might make them afraid of going to bed.
    Katharina Lüth is a PhD student at the institute of Cognitive Science and is researching Sleep & Dreams. She is in particular interested in nightmares and helping people to deal with bad dreams.
    Listen to this episode to learn why we dream in the first place, what lucid dreaming is and whether animals dream too!

    Mentioned papers:

    Appel, K., Füllhase, S., Kern, S., Kleinschmidt, A., Laukemper, A., Lüth, K., … & Vogelsang, L. (2020). Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting. Consciousness and Cognition, 83, 102960.

    Gupta, A. S., Van Der Meer, M. A., Touretzky, D. S., & Redish, A. D. (2010). Hippocampal replay is not a simple function of experience. Neuron, 65(5), 695-705.

    (German only:)

    https://www.dgsm.de/fileadmin/dgsm/Arbeitsgruppen/traum/Alptraeume_Was_kann_ich_dagegen_tun.pdf

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    48 min
  • Who are your hosts? Bonus-to-brain with Alina, Elisa and Sönke
     

    For this special episode we have no guest but the hosts become the guests and are interviewed by our producer Alina. We talk about what Cognitive Science is to us and why we are fascinated by it.

    Recommended resources:
    GODFREY-SMITH, Peter. Other minds: The octopus and the evolution of intelligent life. London: William Collins, 2016.
    BARRETT, Lisa Feldman. How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain. Pan Macmillan, 2017.
    HAWKINS, Jeff; BLAKESLEE, Sandra. On intelligence. Macmillan, 2004.
    SETH, Anil. Being you: A new science of consciousness. Penguin, 2021.
    https://www.youtube.com/Exurb1a

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    51 min
  • On deep neuronal networks, consciousness, and cognitive neuroscience. Brain-to-brain with Adrien Doerig. Special #12

    Adrien Doerig is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. He uses artificial neural networks to study visual processing and is also interested in consciousness research.

    Mentioned paper:

    Doerig, A., Sommers, R. P., Seeliger,  K., Richards, B., Ismael, J., Lindsay, G. W., … & Kietzmann, T. C. (2023). The neuroconnectionist research programme. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1-20.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    18 min
  • Decoding altered states of mind. Brain-to-brain with Linda Ariel Ventura. Special #11

    Have you ever been in a “flow” state? Sleeping, dreaming, being stressed, being in

    “flow” – Altered states of consciousness are something we all experience every single day and yet there is a lot more research to be done.
    Linda Ariel Ventura may only be at the beginning of her academic career, but her enthusiasm for Cognitive Science is already infectious. She is a bachelor student at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück and a member of the Unimind initiative where she researches psychedelic science and altered states of consciousness.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    14 min
  • On solving riddles and understanding the brain. Brain-to-brain with Viktoria Zemliak. Special #10

    What does solving mysteries of the world have to do with brains? And how does one come from wanting to be a detective to research neural networks?

    In this episode, we’re talking to Viktoria Zemliak. She is currently doing her PhD in the neuroinformatics research group at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück.

    As in many episodes, we will learn a lot about why a person is fascinated by the human mind and how this person ended up researching in the field of Cognitive Science more by accident than intention.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    16 min
  • The development of children and the future of the planet. Brain-to-brain with Dr. Annette Hohenberger. Special #9

    Dr. Annette Hohenberger is a lecturer for Cognitive Neuropsychology and is especially interested in the Cognitive Development of children. Additionally to the research she is doing, she is also a member of the local Scientists for Future group.

    Among other things, the Scientists for Future are organizing a lecture series which is also available online.

    Regionalgruppe Osnabrück

    Mentioned paper:
    Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Babies and brains: habituation in infant cognition and functional neuroimaging. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2, 333.

    Credits:

    Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

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

    33 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.