Best Paul Middlebrooks Podcasts (2025)

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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness 1:59:40

10d ago1:59:40

1:59:40

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On construction and clinical use of multipurpose neuron models - with Etay Hay - #27 1:13:21

21d ago1:13:21

1:13:21

Numerous neuron models have been made, but most of them are "single-purpose" in that they are made to address a single scientific question. In contrast, multipurpose neuron models are made to be used to address many scientific questions. In 2011, the guest published a multipurpose rodent pyramidal-cell model which has been actively used by the comm…

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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics 1:50:33

25d ago1:50:33

1:50:33

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Dean Buonomano runs the Buonomano lab at UCLA. Dean was a guest on Brain Inspired way back on episode 18, where we talked about his book Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time, which details much of his thought and research about how cen…

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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test 1:43:59

1M ago1:43:59

1:43:59

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On the population code in visual cortex - with Kenneth Harris - #26 1:24:49

2M ago1:24:49

1:24:49

With modern electrical and optical measurement techniques, we can now measure neural activity in hundreds or thousands of neurons simultaneously. This allows for the investigation of population codes, that is, of how groups of neurons together encode information. In 2019 today’s guest published a seminal paper with collaborators at UCL in London wh…

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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation 1:35:08

2M ago1:35:08

1:35:08

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and m…

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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds 1:29:47

2M ago1:29:47

1:29:47

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group 6:47

2M ago6:47

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Here's the link to learn more and sign up: Complexity Group Email List.By Paul Middlebrooks

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On growing synthetic dendrites – with Hermann Cuntz - #25 1:34:34

3M ago1:34:34

1:34:34

The observed variety of dendritic structures in the brains is striking. Why are they so different, and what determine the branching patterns? Following the dictum “if you understand it, you can build it”, the lab of the guest builds dendritic structures in a computer and explore the underlying principles. Two key principles seem to be to minimize (…

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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate 1:29:10

3M ago1:29:10

1:29:10

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Ciara Greene is Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Psychology. In this episode we discuss Ciara's book Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember, co-authored by her colleague Gillian Murphy. The book is all about how human ep…

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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think 1:39:05

3M ago1:39:05

1:39:05

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On neuroscience foundation models - with Andreas Tolias - #24 1:31:43

4M ago1:31:43

1:31:43

The term “foundation model” refers to machine learning models that are trained on vast datasets and can be applied to a wide range of situations. The large language model GPT-4 is an example. The group of the guest has recently presented a foundation model for optophysiological responses in mouse visual cortex trained on recordings from 135.000 neu…

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time 1:37:37

4M ago1:37:37

1:37:37

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist 1:46:03

4M ago1:46:03

1:46:03

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On human whole-brain models - with Viktor Jirsa - #23 1:55:21

4M ago1:55:21

1:55:21

A holy grail of the multiscale approach for physical brain modelling is to link the different scales from molecules, via cells and local neural networks, up to whole-brain models. The goal of the Virtual Brain Twin project, lead by today’s guest, is to use personalized human whole-brain models to aid clinicians in treating brain ailments. The podca…

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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict 1:38:11

4M ago1:38:11

1:38:11

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors 1:37:22

5M ago1:37:22

1:37:22

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Today I'm in conversation with Rajesh Rao, a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he also co-directs the Center for Neurotechnology. Back in 1999, Raj and Dana Ballard published what became quite a famou…

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On 40 years with the Hopfield network model - with Wulfram Gerstner - #22 1:27:49

5M ago1:27:49

1:27:49

In 1982 John Hopfield published the paper "Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities" describing a simple network model functioning as an associative and content-addressable memory. The paper started a new subfield in computational neuroscience and led to the influx of numerous theoretical scientists, in …

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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI 1:37:11

5M ago1:37:11

1:37:11

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop. You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative, but in case not, BRAIN is is huge funding effort across many agencies, one of which is the National Institutes …

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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation 1:49:07

6M ago1:49:07

1:49:07

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI 1:35:04

6M ago1:35:04

1:35:04

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On models for short-term memory - with Pawel Herman - #21 1:47:42

6M ago1:47:42

1:47:42

The leading theory for learning and memorization in the brain is that learning is provided by synaptic learning rules and memories stored in synaptic weights between neurons. But this is for long-term memory. What about short-term, or working, memory where objects are kept in memory for only a few seconds? The traditional theory held that here the …

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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think 1:29:31

7M ago1:29:31

1:29:31

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On neuro-AI on the boat - part 2 of 2 - with Cristina Savin, Tim Vogels, Mikkel Lepperød, Paul Middlebrooks - #20 1:21:03

7M ago1:21:03

1:21:03

In September Paul Middlebrooks, the producer of the podcast BrainInspired, and I were both on a neuro-AI workshop on a coast liner cruising the Norwegian fjords. We decided to make two joint podcasts with some of the participants where we discuss the role of AI in neuroscience. In this second part we discuss the topic with Cristina Savin and Tim Vo…

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød 1:19:40

7M ago1:19:40

1:19:40

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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On neuro-AI on the boat - part 1 of 2 - with Ken Harris, Andreas Tolias, Mikkel Lepperød, Paul Middlebrooks - #19 1:19:26

7M ago1:19:26

1:19:26

In September Paul Middlebrooks, the producer of the podcast BrainInspired, and I were both on a neuro-AI workshop on a coast liner cruising the Norwegian fjords. We decided to make two joint podcasts with some of the participants where we discuss the role of AI in neuroscience. In this first part we talk with Mikkel Lepperod, the main organizer abo…

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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød 1:17:05

7M ago1:17:05

1:17:05

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting 1:37:21

8M ago1:37:21

1:37:21

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. https://youtu.be/lbKEOdbeqHo The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspec…

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On electric brain signals - solo episode - #18 1:48:22

8M ago1:48:22

1:48:22

Most of what we have learned about the functioning of the living brain has come from extracellular electrical recordings, like the measurement of spikes, LFP, ECoG and EEG signals. And most analysis of these recordings has been statistical, looking for correlations between the recorded signals and what the animal/human is doing or being exposed to.…

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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI 1:32:41

8M ago1:32:41

1:32:41

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Paul Middlebrooks Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Brain Inspired

Paul Middlebrooks

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Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast

Gaute Einevoll

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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness 1:59:40

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On construction and clinical use of multipurpose neuron models - with Etay Hay - #27 1:13:21

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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics 1:50:33

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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test 1:43:59

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On the population code in visual cortex - with Kenneth Harris - #26 1:24:49

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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation 1:35:08

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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds 1:29:47

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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group 6:47

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On growing synthetic dendrites – with Hermann Cuntz - #25 1:34:34

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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate 1:29:10

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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think 1:39:05

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On neuroscience foundation models - with Andreas Tolias - #24 1:31:43

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time 1:37:37

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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist 1:46:03

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On human whole-brain models - with Viktor Jirsa - #23 1:55:21

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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict 1:38:11

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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors 1:37:22

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On 40 years with the Hopfield network model - with Wulfram Gerstner - #22 1:27:49

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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI 1:37:11

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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation 1:49:07

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI 1:35:04

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On models for short-term memory - with Pawel Herman - #21 1:47:42

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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think 1:29:31

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On neuro-AI on the boat - part 2 of 2 - with Cristina Savin, Tim Vogels, Mikkel Lepperød, Paul Middlebrooks - #20 1:21:03

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød 1:19:40

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On neuro-AI on the boat - part 1 of 2 - with Ken Harris, Andreas Tolias, Mikkel Lepperød, Paul Middlebrooks - #19 1:19:26

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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød 1:17:05

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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting 1:37:21

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On electric brain signals - solo episode - #18 1:48:22

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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI 1:32:41

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