Welcome to the Convergent Science Network Podcast!
During the BCBT Summerschools (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) hosting professors Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott interviewed several speakers after their lectures. Interviews are also conducted on other occasions with various scientist in converging fields.
About the hosts: Paul Verschure is ICREA Professor at SPECS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Tony Prescott is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sheffield.
The Convergent Science Network of biomimetic and biohybrid systems (CSN, www.csnetwork.eu) is a coordination action for the development of future real-world technologies. CSN is supported through the Future and Emerging Technology programs (FET) of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) work programme of Framework Programme 7 of the European Commission.
Audio (post-)production: Sytse Wierenga. Podcast site: Alberto Betella.
Thoughts, discussions, and achievements in neurobiology, biomimetic and biohybrid systems
We can learn a lot from brains and bodies when making machines and robots. But reversely, building complex machine systems can also give ideas about how brains and bodies have implemented their functioning over the evolution of ages. This podcast discusses various themes and aspects in-between robotics, neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, biology, and technology.
Interview John Lisman
05-04-2018
John Lisman (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) discusses his work on the brain’s navigation coding, arguing how sets of faster oscillations nested in slower cycles may constitute a general communication principle in the brain.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 117.1MB - Duration: 1:03:52 m (256 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Marc Blumberg
05-04-2018
Marc Blumberg’s (University of Iowa) work focuses on sleep, more specific on the influence of the twitching of muscles on the sensorimotor system.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 169.33MB - Duration: 1:13:55 m (320 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Edvard Moser
05-04-2018
Edvard Moser (Kavli Institute and Centre for Neural Computation, Norway; Nobel prize 2014) discusses the work of his group, his wife and himself on the brain’s computation of spatial memory.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 137.86MB - Duration: 1:00:10 m (320 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Gregg Recanzone
05-04-2018
Gregg Recanzone (UC Davis, California) talks about his older work on plasticity in the adult brain. With Paul Verschure and Toby Prescott he discuss how neurons keep adapting to a type of input they are receiving.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 152.3MB - Duration: 1:06:28 m (320 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Benny Hochner
05-04-2018
Benny Hochner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) discusses his work on octopi and the way motor control is uniquely organised in their flexible bodies.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 161.05MB - Duration: 1:10:18 m (320 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Barbara Finlay
05-04-2018
Barbara Finlay (Cornell University, New York) focuses on causal relations between brain structure and an animal’s evolutionarily differentiated behaviour. She discusses the ways brains do change, but in a quite constraint fashion.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 135.74MB - Duration: 1:14:03 m (256 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Randall D Beer
05-04-2018
Randall D Beer (Indiana University, Bloomington) discusses the use of dynamical systems theory as a mathematical 'lens' or language to study the brain and its processes. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 96.03MB - Duration: 1:09:55 m (192 kbps 48000 Hz)
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Interview Zoltán Monár
05-04-2018
Zoltán Monár (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) discusses his work on the development of the brain. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 85.64MB - Duration: 1:02:21 m (192 kbps 48000 Hz)
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Interview Yaki Setty
05-04-2018
Yaki Setty (Computational Systems Biology, Max Planck Institute, Saarbrücken) discusses his work on the modeling of neurogenesis and related developmental processes. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 79.46MB - Duration: 57:52 m (192 kbps 48000 Hz)
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Interview Stefano Ferraina
05-04-2018
Stefano Ferraina (Physiology, Sapienza University, Rome) discusses his work on primate decision making and inference. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 88.15MB - Duration: 1:04:11 m (192 kbps 48000 Hz)
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