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Unsupervised Thinking
A podcast about neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and science more broadly, run by a group of computational neuroscientists.
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Listen to Unsupervised Thinking, a Science & Medicine podcast by Neuro Collective. Stream 51 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 51 episodesE50: Brain Organoids
Most neuroscience research takes place in a full, live animal. But brain organoids are different. Brain organoids are three-dimensional blob...
E49: How Important is Learning?
The age-old debate of nature versus nurture is now being played out between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The dominant approach...
E48: Studying the Brain in Light of Evolution
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...
E47: Deep Learning to Understand the Brain
The recent advances in deep learning have done more than just make money for startups and tech companies. They've also infiltrated neuroscie...
E46: What We Learn from Model Organisms
From worms to flies, and mice to macaques, neuroscientists study a range (but not very large range...) of animals when they study "the brain...
E45: How Working Memory Works
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...
E44: Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?
In 2002, cancer biologist Yuri Lazebnik raised and addressed the semi-facetious question "Can a biologist fix a radio?" in a short paper. Th...
E43: What Are Glia Up to?
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...
E42: Learning Rules, Biological vs. Artificial
For decades, neuroscientists have explored the ways in which neurons update and control the strength of their connections. For slightly fewe...
E41: Training and Diversity in Computational Neuroscience
This very special episode of Unsupervised Thinking takes place entirely at the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo in Cape Town, S...
E40: Global Science
In the past few years, we've noticed researchers making more explicit efforts to engage with scientists in other countries, particularly tho...
E39: What Does the Cerebellum Do?
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...
E38: Reinforcement Learning - Biological and Artificial
Reinforcement learning is important for understanding behavior because it tells us how actions are guided by reward. But the topic also has...
E37: What is an Explanation? - Part 2
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...
E36: What is an Explanation? - Part 1
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...
E35: Generative Models
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...
E34: The Gut-Brain Connection
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...
E33: Predictive Coding
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...
E32: How Do We Study Behavior?
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...
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