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A podcast about neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and science more broadly, run by a group of computational neuroscientists.
Grace wrote a book! And she talked to Brain Inspired host Paul Middlebrooks about it. The book is about the many different ways mathematical...
Most neuroscience research takes place in a full, live animal. But brain organoids are different. Brain organoids are three-dimensional blob...
The age-old debate of nature versus nurture is now being played out between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The dominant approach...
The brain is the result of evolution. A lot of evolution. Most neuroscientists don't really think about this fact. Should we? On this episod...
The recent advances in deep learning have done more than just make money for startups and tech companies. They've also infiltrated neuroscie...
From worms to flies, and mice to macaques, neuroscientists study a range (but not very large range...) of animals when they study "the brain...
Working memory is the ability to keep something in mind several seconds after it's gone. Neurons don't tend to keep firing when their input...
In 2002, cancer biologist Yuri Lazebnik raised and addressed the semi-facetious question "Can a biologist fix a radio?" in a short paper. Th...
Despite the fact that the brain is full of them, glial cells don't get much attention from neuroscientists. The traditional view of these no...
For decades, neuroscientists have explored the ways in which neurons update and control the strength of their connections. For slightly fewe...
This very special episode of Unsupervised Thinking takes place entirely at the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo in Cape Town, S...
In the past few years, we've noticed researchers making more explicit efforts to engage with scientists in other countries, particularly tho...
Cerebellum literally means "little brain," and in a way, it has been treated as a second-class citizen in neuroscience for awhile. In this e...
Reinforcement learning is important for understanding behavior because it tells us how actions are guided by reward. But the topic also has...
In part two of our conversation on what counts as an explanation in science, we pickup with special guest David Barack giving his thoughts o...
As scientists, we throw around words like "explanation" a lot. We assume explaining stuff is part of what we're doing when we make and synth...
Machine learning has been making big strides in a lot of straightforward tasks, such as taking an image and labeling the objects in it. But...
Because of the sheer number of neurons in the gut, the enteric nervous system is sometimes called the second brain. What're all those neuron...
You may have heard of predictive coding; it's a theory that gets around. In fact, it's been used to understand everything from the retina to...
There is a tension when it comes to the study of behavior in neuroscience. On the one hand, we would love to understand animals as they beha...
On this unique episode of Unsupervised Thinking, we talk not about a particular area of science, but about the process of doing science itse...
Sleep is such a ubiquitous part of our lives we may forget just how weird of a thing it is to spend a third of our days laying in darkness....
In the late 19th century, many of the most basic foundations of neuroscience were laid, but not without a fight. In this episode, we cover t...
In this very special episode of Unsupervised Thinking, we bring together a group of neuroscientists and neuroscience enthusiasts to have a s...
In the second part of our discussion on the concept of coding, we get into specific examples of what could count as the "neural code". In pa...
The concept of "coding," along with language referencing it, is abundant in neuroscience whether describing sensory systems, cognition, or m...
You move your eyes several times a second, making choices about what to attend to without even noticing. That is a lot of behavioral data th...
For this episode, special guest Nancy Padilla (E5: Neural Oscillations) returns to talk about a topic she now studies: social neuroscience....
For this episode, we try to de-thorn one of the thorniest topics in neuroscience: consciousness! Starting with the (not so) simple task of d...
Sloppiness, stiffness, and stomatogastric ganglion! This episode on underdeterminacy in neural circuits will introduce you to all these topi...
To much of the world, the face of neuroscience is an image of a brain with small colored blobs on it. Those images come from functional magn...
Sometimes scientists decide to turn their tools of inquiry inward to understand their own fields and behaviors. For our 20th episode, we're...
Way back in Episode 16 we paired up with Always Already to talk about a book on gender and the interaction of science and society. Unsurpris...
For most people, the desire to study neuroscience comes from a desire to understand how, in some form, the brain leads to behavior. Generall...
There's a lot to be said about the technical progress being made with artificial intelligence, but what about the impact these rapid advance...
On this "very special" episode of Unsupervised Thinking, we partner with our fellow podcasters over at Always Already, a critical theory pod...
In the late 1700s, English minister Thomas Bayes discovered a simple mathematical rule for calculating probabilities based on different info...
Computational psychiatry is a field in its infancy, but it offers potential to change the way mental disorders are diagnosed, treated, and u...
As computational neuroscientists, the members of this podcast take for granted the fact that math can be used to describe the brain. But is...
The body is generally kept at around 37 degrees C, and the brain maybe even a degree higher. So it might seem like a bad idea to cool it dow...
The connectome--a silly word and a somewhat simple concept that has caused significant debate amongst neuroscientists worldwide. In this epi...
It's the big 1-0 here at Unsupervised Thinking and for it we are tackling a big topic: brain size! [insert obligatory "does size matter" jok...
Do you know what happens when scientists patent their ideas? Do you know who gets the money from those patents? Did you know that scientists...
In some ways, neuroscience is like psychology's little brother. It came around later, started encroaching on psychology's turf and drawing a...
Inside a skull it's generally pretty dark. But about 10 years ago, as part of a new method for toying with neurons, scientists started shini...
tDCS is old school brain manipulation involving electrodes and sponges. For our 6th episode we describe the basic premise of tDCS (really si...
For our 5th episode, we get into braaaiiiiinnnwaaaaaavessss. By which we mean neural oscillations. By which we really mean a lot of differen...
As you may have heard, there's been a lot of talk about something called deep learning lately. So for our fourth episode, we and our special...
For our third episode, we cover "neuromorphic computing". The attempt to build hardware that functions like neurons is a fairly new field of...
For our second episode, we break down BCI. We'll go over what signals in the brain are used to interface with computers and how. Included is...