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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 Gary Marcus
05-04-2018
Gary Marcus (NYU Center for Language and Music, New York) discusses his criticism of the current views of cortical organization and his proposal on an alternative perspective. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 86.4MB - Duration: 1:02:55 m (192 kbps 48000 Hz)
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Interview Danielle Stolzenberg
05-04-2018
Danielle Stolzenberg (University of California, Davis) discusses her work on innate behaviors and their genetic and neuronal regulation in the hypothalamus. Interviewed by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 85.76MB - Duration: 1:02:27 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview Gary Hesslow
05-04-2018
Germund Hesslow (Lund University) discusses with Paul Verschure the role of the cerebellum in the animal brain. Behavioral learning, prediction and the neural substrate underlying these functions are discussed with a focus on Classical Conditioning.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 58.82MB - Duration: 1:04:15 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)
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Interview with Friedemann Pulvermuller
05-04-2018
Friedemann Pulvermuller (Free University of Berlin) is With Paul Verschure he discusses language, semantics and the building of meaning through action, and a grounding of this in the brain science.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 135.59MB - Duration: 1:38:32 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Peter Gärdenfors
05-04-2018
Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University) discusses with Paul Verschure how the mind can represent knowledge. He introduces a cognitive theory of conceptual spaces, built from dimensions derived from perception, action, and social grounding in society.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 95.79MB - Duration: 1:09:33 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Moshe Bar
05-04-2018
Moshe Bar (Harvard Medical School, Charlestown) argues for a cognitive model that blends expectation (top-down) and sensation (bottom-up) processing. With Paul Verschure he discusses also imagination, meditation, and depression treatment in this context.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 90.23MB - Duration: 1:05:30 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Mandyam Srinivasan
05-04-2018
Mandyam Srinivasan's research (University of Queensland, Brisbane) centers on vision and cognition of flying insects, especially bees. He discusses it with Paul Verschure and special guest Partha Mitra (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York).
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 88.29MB - Duration: 1:04:05 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Nick Strausfeld
05-04-2018
Nick Strausfeld's interest (University of Arizona, Tucson) lies in evolution and comparative neurobiology. With Paul & Tony he discusses how common denominators of insect brains lead us to find core system architectures.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 66.97MB - Duration: 48:34 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Guenther Knoblich
05-04-2018
Guenther Knoblich's work (Central European University, Budapest) focuses on joint action like performed in team sports, and acrobatics. With Paul Verschure he discusses cognitive aspects of coordination, timing, and signalling while moving together.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 88.47MB - Duration: 1:04:14 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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Interview with Dmitri B. Chklovskii
05-04-2018
Dmitri B. Chklovskii (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) discusses the idea of the brain as an adaptive filter, and what theoretical and experimental implications this approach entails.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 74.45MB - Duration: 54:01 m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)
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