71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour BJKS podcast 2023-04-23 | Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. In this conversation, we talk about the early years of Lynn's career: why he chose to do chemistry, how a course with Donald Hebb made him switch to psychology, how his postdoc was disrupted by the Soviet invasion during the Prague Spring, John O'Keefe's discovery of place cells, how Lynn and O'Keefe wrote The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: How Lynn went from studying chemistry to doing a PhD on memory08:35: What was it like working Donald Hebb?15:16: The golden era of cognitive neuroscience at McGill in the 50s and 60s23:14: Lynn's postdoc in Prague was interrupted by the Soviet invasion during Prague Spring36:29: The discovery of place cells and the writing of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map50:59: A paper or book Lynn thinks more people should read54:55: Something Lynn wishes he'd learnt sooner57:38: Advice for early career scientistsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLynn's links • Website: geni.us/nadel-web • Mastodon: geni.us/nadel-mastodonBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Kate Jeffery: geni.us/bjks-jefferyKonorski: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_KonorskiJZ Young: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zachary_YoungGoddard (1983). The kindling model of epilepsy. Trends in Neurosciences.Káli & Dayan (2002). Replay, repair and consolidation. Adv in Neur Info Proc Sys. Klein, Cosmides, Tooby & Chance (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions. Psych Rev.Konorski (1967). Integrative activity of the brain; an interdisciplinary approach.McClelland, McNaughton & O'Reilly (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psych Rev.Melzack & Wall (1965). Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory: A gate control system modulates sensory input from the skin before it evokes pain perception and response. Science.Nadel & Buresova (1968). Monocular input and interhemispheric transfer in the reversible split-brain. Nature.Olds & Milner (1954). Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain. J comp & phys psychol.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Oxford University Press.Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nat Neuro.Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS.
103. Brandon Brown: Farms not grants, academic negotiations, and unusual academic contributions BJKS podcast 2024-10-18 | Brandon Brown is a professor at University of California Riverside, where he studies global health and ethics. He also writes career columns for Nature and Science, which we talk about: negotiations in academia, his sabbatical, his life owning and working a farm, different types of grants and contributions in academia, and much moreBJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Brandon's path to becoming a scientist0:20:39: Start discussing Brandon's career columns in Nature0:32:17: Grant applications: small vs. big0:41:36: Postdoc-phase: is my plan crazy?0:55:32: Different types of contribution/recognition in academia1:09:22: Negotiation in academia1:22:47: Contributing to team science1:30:30: Sabbaticals1:39:19: Brandon's farm1:48:15: A book or paper more people should read1:49:33: Something Brandon wishes he'd learnt sooner1:51:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrandon's links • Website: geni.us/brown-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/brown-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/brown-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksCAMP: campstatewide.orgtruEvolution: truevolution.orgBrandon's columns (most of which we discussed):nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02390-wnature.com/articles/d41586-022-03184-8nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00381-5science.org/doi/10.1126/science.364.6447.1306science.org/doi/10.1126/science.372.6548.1358Coelho (1988). The Alchemist.
102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics... BJKS podcast 2024-10-11 | Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Science Neuroscience in Trondheim. We talk about how she went from studying physics in Argentina to working on the brain in Norway, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, why researchers should give their research animals a nice life, mentorship, and discuss her recent Nature paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Studying physics in Argentina0:12:30: The advantages of a physics background - interdisciplinarity in neuroscience0:27:31: How Soledad ended up in Trondheim0:32:46: Rodent heaven in Norway0:36:19: Start discussing Soledad's paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences1:03:12: So what do those ultraslow oscillatory sequences do?1:16:18: A book or paper more people should read1:22:30: Something Soledad wishes she'd learnt sooner1:30:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtSoledad's links • Website: geni.us/gonzalo_cogno-web • Twitter: geni.us/gonzalo_cogno-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesEpisode about Ramon y Cajal: geni.us/bjks-ehrlichBrun, Solstad, Kjelstrup, Fyhn, Witter, Moser & Moser (2008). Progressive increase in grid scale from dorsal to ventral medial entorhinal cortex. Hippocampus.Constantinou, Gonzalo Cogno, Elijah, Kropff, Gigg, Samengo & Montemurro (2016). Bursting neurons in the hippocampal formation encode features of LFP rhythms. Frontiers in computational neuroscience.Dayan & Abbott (2005). Theoretical neuroscience: computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems.Gonzalo Cogno, Obenhaus, Lautrup, Jacobsen, Clopath, Andersson, ... & Moser (2024). Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. Nature.Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman (2009). The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction.Kropff, Carmichael, Moser & Moser (2015). Speed cells in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature.MacKay (2003). Information theory, inference and learning algorithms.
101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals BJKS podcast 2024-10-04 | Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat behavior, conservation efforts, challenges such as sarcoptic mange and roadkill, the Northern hairy-nosed wombat's critically endangered status and efforts to translocate them safely, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Julie got into working with wombats0:03:14: What are wombats?0:11:40: How Julie started researching wombats0:15:34: Sarcoptic mange in wombats0:25:22: Saving the critically endangered Northern hairy-nosed wombat0:36:00: How to prevent wombats from becoming roadkill0:41:46: How do I know a wombat was there without seeing the wombat directly?0:44:11: What research could I do on wombats and (social) decision-making?0:47:51: How do wombats navigate in burrows?0:52:42: How the Australian wildfires in 19/20 affected wombats0:55:41: WomSAT0:59:29: The Wombat Foundation1:01:06: How to translocate a population of wombats1:08:35: A book or paper more people should read1:10:53: Something Julie wishes she'd learnt sooner1:12:11: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJulie's links • Website: geni.us/old-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/old-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/old-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksThe scientific park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest_National_ParkThe Wombat Foundation: https://www.wombatfoundation.com.au/WomSAT: https://www.womsat.org.au/womsat/French & Whatley (2002). Diary of a Wombat.Mayadunnage, Stannard, West & Old (2024). Spatial and temporal patterns of sarcoptic mange in wombats using the citizen science tool, WomSAT. Integrative Zoology.Old, Hunter & Wolfenden (2018). Who utilises bare-nosed wombat burrows?. Australian Zoologist.Old, Sengupta, Naraya, & Wolfenden (2018). Sarcoptic mange in wombats—A review and future research directions. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.Old & Deane (2003). The detection of mature T‐and B‐cells during development of the lymphoid tissues of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Journal of Anatomy.Old & Deane (2000). Development of the immune system and immunological protection in marsupial pouch young. Developmental & Comparative Immunology.Park (1962). The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat.Stannard, Wynan, Wynan, Dixon Mayadunnage & Old (2021). Can virtual fences reduce wombat road mortalities?. Ecological Engineering.Strahan's mammals of Australia (2023).Woodford (2002). The secret life of wombats.
100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism BJKS podcast 2024-08-16 | Tom Chivers is a journalist who writes a lot about science and applied statistics. We talk about his new book on Bayesian statistics, the biography of Thomas Bayes, the history of probability theory, how Bayes can help with the replication crisis, how Tom became a journalist, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Tom's book about Bayes & Bayesian statistics relates to many of my previous episodes and much of my own research0:03:12: A brief biography of Thomas Bayes (about whom very little is known)0:11:00: The history of probability theory 0:36:23: Bayesian songs0:43:17: Bayes & the replication crisis0:57:27: How Tom got into science journalism1:08:32: A book or paper more people should read1:10:05: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:14:36: Advice for PhD students/postdocs/people in a transition periodPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's links • Website: geni.us/chivers-web • Twitter: geni.us/chivers-twt • Podcast: geni.us/chivers-podBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode with Stuart Ritchie: geni.us/bjks-ritchieScott Alexander: astralcodexten.comBayes (1731). Divine benevolence, or an attempt to prove that the principal end of the divine providence and government is the happiness of his creatures. Being an answer to a pamphlet entitled Divine Rectitude or an inquiry concerning the moral perfections of the deity with a refutation of the notions therein advanced concerning beauty and order, the reason of punishment and the necessity of a state of trial antecedent to perfect happiness.Bayes (1763). An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.Bellhouse (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth. Project Euclid.Bem (2011). Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of personality and social psychology.Chivers (2024). Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World.Chivers & Chivers (2021). How to read numbers: A guide to statistics in the news (and knowing when to trust them).Chivers (2019). The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future.Clarke [not Black, as Tom said] (2020). Piranesi.Goldacre (2009). Bad science.Goldacre (2014). Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients.Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science.
99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances BJKS podcast 2024-08-02 | Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training)0:13:41: How Laura ended up doing a PhD at Caltech with Lior Pachter (and how to choose one project if you're interested in many things)0:22:00: gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience0:54:07: Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter0:59:34: Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances1:36:43: A book or paper more people should read1:38:55: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner1:40:38: Advice for PhD students/postdocs1:44:02: Bonus: should I learn Catalan?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLaura's links • Website: geni.us/luebbert-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/luebbert-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/luebbert-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode with Jessica Polka: geni.us/bjks-polkaEpisode with Elisabeth Bik: geni.us/bjks-bikEpisode with Joe Hilgard: geni.us/bjks-hilgardPrototype fund Germany: https://prototypefund.de/en/PubPeer: pubpeer.comAaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series.Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen.Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari & Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv.Luebbert & Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics.Luebbert & Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv.liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity
98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins BJKS podcast 2024-07-19 | Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. We talk about her research on the genetics of music and mental health, methods in behavioural genetics, the role of large samples, the importance of twins for behavioural genetics, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Did Beethoven have bad genetics for music - or are there problems with applying (some) genetic methods to individuals?0:11:51: Different methods in behavioural genetics0:24:20: Gene x environment interactions and the difficulty of disentangling them0:30:30: 23andMe in genetics research0:37:26: Can you ask an interesting question if you need millions of people to have done a measurement?0:42:08: How to measure musicality (at scale)0:47:56: Geneticists really love twins0:50:41: Do critical periods in music exist?1:03:30: How Laura got interested in the genetics of music1:12:07: A book or paper more people should read1:16:17: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner1:17:49: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLaura's links • Website: geni.us/wesseldijk-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/wesseldijk-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/wesseldijk-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBegg, ... & Krause (2023). Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven. Current Biology.Harden (2021). The genetic lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality.Hjelmborg, ... & Kaprio, J. (2017). Lung cancer, genetic predisposition and smoking: the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. Thorax.Rutherford (2020). How to argue with a racist: History, science, race and reality.Rutherford (2022). Control: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics.Ullén, Mosing, Holm, Eriksson & Madison (2014). Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test. Personality and Individual Differences.Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2019). The effects of playing music on mental health outcomes. Scientific reports.Wesseldijk, Mosing & Ullén (2021). Why is an early start of training related to musical skills in adulthood? A genetically informative study. Psychological Science.Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2023). Music and genetics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.Wesseldijk, Abdellaoui, Gordon, Ullén & Mosing (2022). Using a polygenic score in a family design to understand genetic influences on musicality. Scientific reports.Wesseldijk, ... & Fisher (2024). Notes from Beethoven’s genome. Current Biology.
97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans BJKS podcast 2024-05-24 | Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much more.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience0:06:23: Arne's route to a PhD recording single-cells in humans (via political activism in Central America)0:20:18: The state of using VR-like tasks in the early 2000s0:24:32: The status of spatial navigation research in the early 2000s0:29:45: Collecting data from unusual populations0:33:59: Why record from amygdala for a spatial navigation task?0:41:35: Combining memory and navigation in hippocampus1:02:04: Should I use one method or many?1:11:29: A book or paper more people should read1:13:51: Something Arne wishes he'd learnt sooner1:14:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtArne's links • Website: geni.us/ekstrom-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/ekstrom-scholarBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksEpisode with Lynn Nadel: geni.us/bjks-nadelEpisode with Nanthia Suthana: geni.us/bjks-suthana Episode with Nikolai Axmacher: geni.us/bjks-axmacherEpisode with Nachum Ulanovsky: geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyArgyropoulos ... & Butler (2019). Network-wide abnormalities explain memory variability in hippocampal amnesia. Elife.Ekstrom, .. & Fried (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature.Ekstrom ... & Kahana (2005). Human hippocampal theta activity during virtual navigation. Hippocampus.Ekstrom ... & Bookheimer (2009). Correlation between BOLD fMRI and theta-band local field potentials in the human hippocampal area. J neurophys.Ekstrom ... & Starrett (2017). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature. J neurophys.Ekstrom & Ranganath (2018). Space, time, and episodic memory: The hippocampus is all over the cognitive map. Hippocampus.Hassabis ... & Maguire (2009). Decoding neuronal ensembles in the human hippocampus. Current Biology.Iaria & Burles (2016). Developmental topographical disorientation. TiCS.Kunz ... & Axmacher (2015). Reduced grid-cell–like representations in adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Science.Logothetis ... & Oeltermann (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature.Watrous ... & Ekstrom (2013). Frequency-specific network connectivity increases underlie accurate spatiotemporal memory retrieval. Nat Neuro.Zhang & Ekstrom (2013). Human neural systems underlying rigid and flexible forms of allocentric spatial representation. Human brain mapping.
96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science BJKS podcast 2024-04-16 | Benjamin Ehrlich is the author of the recent biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (The brain in search of itself), and The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. We talk about Cajal's life and work, Cajal's unlikely beginnings in a rural Spain, how he discovered that neurons were separate from each other, leading to the neutron doctrine, how Cajal became famous seemingly overnight, Cajal's rivalry with Camillo Golgi, the relationship between art and science, how to write a biography of someone whose autobiographical writings were heavily influenced by picaresque novels, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why Cajal is worth talking about0:01:42: Cajal's father 0:04:48: Cajal's childhood0:17:22: Cajal's early work on the brain, and the status of neuroscience in the 1880s0:23:45: The conference that made Cajal famous0:29:42: Cajal's years as a famous scientist0:35:33: Cajal's personality0:41:14: Cajal & Golgi's rivalry0:45:48: del Rio and the discovery of glia cells0:49:13: Picaresque novels and the difficulty of trusting Cajal's stories of himself1:02:52: A book or paper more people should read1:04:14: Something Ben wishes he'd learnt sooner1:04:57: Advice for PhD students/postdocs - people in a transitory periodPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBen (Ehrlich)'s links • Website: http://www.benehrlich.com • Twitter: twitter.com/benehrlich11Ben (Kuper-Smith)'s links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksKölliker: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_von_K%C3%B6llikerGolgi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Golgidel Rio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADo_del_R%C3%ADo_HortegaCalvino (1972). Invisible cities.Ehrlich (2017). The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.Ehrlich (2022). The brain in search of itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron.Pitlor & Lee (editors). The Best American Short Stories 2023 .
95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD BJKS podcast 2024-03-02 | Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got into science, the year she spent in Peru before her PhD, advice for writing well, and much more.There are occasional (minor) audio disturbances when Emily's speaking. Sorry about that, still trying to figure out where they came from so that it won't happen again.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Supportive peer review0:03:25: Why study linguistics?0:11:05: Uncertainties about doing a PhD/taking time off0:18:05: Emily's year-and-a-half in Peru0:25:17: Emily's PhD0:29:34: Neural fingerprints0:49:25: Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging1:24:01: How to write good scientific articles1:30:55: A book or paper more people should read1:34:58: Something Emily wishes she'd learnt sooner1:39:20: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEmily's links • Website: geni.us/finn-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/finn-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/finn-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Nachum Ulanovsky: geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyByrge & Kennedy (2019). High-accuracy individual identification using a “thin slice” of the functional connectome. Network Neuroscience.Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals.Finn, ... & Constable (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: a whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological psychiatry.Finn, Shen, ... & Constable (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, ... & Constable (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications.Finn, ... & Bandettini (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage.Finn & Bandettini (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage.Finn (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest?. Trends in cognitive sciences.Finn & Rosenberg (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage.Grall & Finn (2022). Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: A media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.Hasson, ... & Malach (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science.Hedge, Powell & Sumner (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior research methods.Sava-Segal, ... & Finn (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.
94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of colla... BJKS podcast 2024-02-18 | David Van Essen is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about David's path to becoming a neuroscientist, the Human Connectome project, hierarhical processing in the cerebral cortex, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: David's childhood: ravens, rockets, and radios0:05:00: From physics to neuroscience (via chemistry)0:13:55: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to science0:19:17: Model species in neuroscience0:31:35: Hierarchical processing in the cortex0:46:54: The Human Connectome Project0:55:00: A book or paper more people should read0:58:01: Something David wishes he'd learnt sooner1:00:31: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtDavid's links • Website: geni.us/VanEssen-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/VanEssen-scholarBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksDavid's autobiographical sketch for the Society for Neuroscience (in Volume 9): sfn.org/about/history-of-neuroscience/autobiographical-chaptersFelleman & Van Essen (1991). Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex.Glasser, Coalson, Robinson, Hacker, Harwell, Yacoub, ... & Van Essen (2016). A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex. Nature.Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The Journal of physiology.Maunsell & Van Essen (1983). The connections of the middle temporal visual area (MT) and their relationship to a cortical hierarchy in the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience.Sheldrake (2021). Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures.Van Essen & Kelly (1973). Morphological identification of simple, complex and hypercomplex cells in the visual cortex of the cat. In Intracellular Staining in Neurobiology (pp. 189-198).Van Essen & Maunsell (1980). Two‐dimensional maps of the cerebral cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology.Van Essen (2012). Cortical cartography and Caret software. Neuroimage.Van Essen, Smith, Barch, Behrens, Yacoub, Ugurbil & WU-Minn HCP Consortium. (2013). The WU-Minn human connectome project: an overview. Neuroimage.Wooldridge (1963). The machinery of the brain.
93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience BJKS podcast 2024-02-09 | Nachum Ulanovsky is a professor at the Weizman Institute. We talk about his research on spatial navigation in bats, how Nachum started working with bats, the importance of natural behaviour, how to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience, and much more.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Nachum started working with bats0:09:29: The technical difficulties of working with bats and in a new species0:16:03: The Egyptian Fruit Bat0:19:42: Wild bats vs lab-born bats / spatial navigation in very large spaces0:26:28: How to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience0:44:30: 2 random questions about bats0:53:48: The social lives of bats & social place cells1:05:09: Why are there so many types of cells for spatial navigation?1:13:01: Natural neuroscience1:17:33: A book or paper more people should read1:20:39: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNachum's links • Website: geni.us/ulanovsky-webBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksBracken Cave in Texas, with millions of bats: youtube.com/watch?v=PNPioS_roREThe Onion video on scientist who wasted life studying anteaters: youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvkEilam-Altstadter ... (2021). Stereotaxic brain atlas of the Egyptian fruit bat.Eliav ... (2021). Multiscale representation of very large environments in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science.Finkelstein ... (2015). Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain. Nature.Geva-Sagiv ... (2015). Spatial cognition in bats and rats: from sensory acquisition to multiscale maps and navigation. Nat Rev Neuro.Geva-Sagiv ... (2016). Hippocampal global remapping for different sensory modalities in flying bats. Nat Neuro.Hafting ... (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature.Hodgkin & Huxley (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. The J phys.Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The J phys.Lettvin... (1959). What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Proceedings of IRE.Miller (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two ... Psych Rev.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map ... Brain research.Omer ... (2018). Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science.Sarel ... (2017). Vectorial representation of spatial goals in the hippocampus of bats. Science.Sarel ... (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature.Tsoar ... (2011). Large-scale navigational map in a mammal. PNAS.Ulanovsky ... (2003). Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons. Nature neuroscience.Ulanovsky & Moss (2007). Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats. Nat Neuro.Yartsev & Ulanovsky (2013). Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science.
92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique BJKS podcast 2024-02-02 | Tom Hardwicke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. We talk about meta-science, incuding Tom's work on post-publication critique and registered reports, what his new role as editor at Psychological Science entails, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: What is meta-science/meta-research?0:03:15: How Tom got involved in meta-science0:21:51: Post-publication critique in journals0:39:30: How Tom's work (registered reports) led to policy changes at journals0:44:08: Tom is now the STAR (statistics, transparency, and rigor) editor at Psychological Science0:48:17: How to best share data that can be used by people with different backgrounds0:54:51: A book or paper more people should read0:56:36: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:00:13: Jobs in meta-science1:03:29: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's links • Website: geni.us/hardwicke-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/hardwicke-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/hardwicke-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksEpisodes w/ Nosek, Vazire, & Chambers: geni.us/bjks-nosekgeni.us/bjks-vaziregeni.us/bjks-chambersFoamhenge: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoamhengeMETRICS: https://metrics.stanford.edu/AIMOS: youtube.com/@aimosinc4164Chambers & Mellor (2018). Protocol transparency is vital for registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour.Hardwicke, Jameel, Jones, Walczak & Weinberg (2014). Only human: Scientists, systems, and suspect statistics. Opticon1826.Hardwicke & Ioannidis (2018). Mapping the universe of registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour.Hardwicke, Serghiou, Janiaud, Danchev, Crüwell, Goodman & Ioannidis (2020). Calibrating the scientific ecosystem through meta-research. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.Hardwicke, Thibault, Kosie, Tzavella, Bendixen, Handcock, ... & Ioannidis (2022). Post-publication critique at top-ranked journals across scientific disciplines: a cross-sectional assessment of policies and practice. Royal Society Open Science.Hardwicke & Vazire (2023). Transparency Is Now the Default at Psychological Science. Psychological Science.Kidwell, Lazarević, Baranski, Hardwicke, Piechowski, Falkenberg, ... & Nosek (2016). Badges to acknowledge open practices: A simple, low-cost, effective method for increasing transparency. PLoS biology.Nosek, Hardwicke, Moshontz, Allard, Corker, Dreber, ... & Vazire (2022). Replicability, robustness, and reproducibility in psychological science. Annual review of psychology.Ritchie (2020). Science fictions: Exposing fraud, bias, negligence and hype in science.
91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting BJKS podcast 2024-01-26 | Jessica Polka is Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit that promotes innovation and transparency in life science publishing. We talk about her work at ASAPbio, how she got into it, preprints, the many functions of peer review, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: The Jessica-Polka0:01:25: What is ASAPbio?0:03:53: Do we still need to convince people to use preprints in 2024? / Different uses for preprints0:17:53: Are preprints really that beneficial?0:24:05: Peer review's many functions and audiences0:36:36: Do we still need journals?0:41:27: Why should we publish peer review?0:54:08: What can we do as individual scientists (other than hope for systemic change)?0:56:55: How Jessica got involved with ASAPbio, and her day-to-day work1:08:20: A book or paper more people should read1:11:13: Something Jessica wishes she'd learnt sooner1:13:18: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJessica's links • Website: geni.us/polka-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/polka-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/polka-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtLinks mentionedThe Jessica-Polka: youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lDdnQytp2eY(there seem to be many versions)ASAPbio: asapbio.orgReview Commons: reviewcommons.orgJessica's interview with Everything Hertz: everythinghertz.com/51The Ingelfinger rule: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingelfinger_ruleCrowd preprint review: asapbio.org/crowd-preprint-reviewPeer Community in Registered Reports: rr.peercommunityin.orgcOAlition S: Towards Responsible Publishing: coalition-s.org/towards-responsible-publishingscite.aiPublish your reviews: asapbio.org/publishyourreviewsASAPbio fellows program: asapbio.org/fellows References Abbott (1884). Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.Cialdini (1984). Influence: The psychology of persuasion.Eckmann & Bandrowski (2023). PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication. Plos One.Moran & Lennington (2013). The 12 Week Year: Get more Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months.Penfold & Polka (2020). Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences. PLoS Genetics.Polka, Kiley, Konforti, Stern & Vale (2018). Publish peer reviews. Nature.
90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies BJKS podcast 2024-01-19 | Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. We talk mainly about Vladimir Nabokov: Brian wrote the defining biography on Nabokov (in addition to books on more specific aspects about Nabokov), so we discuss Nabokov's life & work, Brian's approachh to writing biographies, with some hints of the new biography Brian is writing about Karl Popper.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why this is a special episode for me0:07:02: Nabokov's family & childhood0:15:54: The Russian Revolution, starting in 19170:19:52: Nabokov's study years in Cambridge and emigre years in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s0:30:19: Nabokov's early American years: teaching and butterflies0:35:56: Nabokov's Russian vs English works, and the problem of translations0:41:48: Lolita0:50:13: Pale Fire1:02:46: Nabokov's writing process1:07:26: Nabokov's reception1:10:00: Writing Nabokov's biography: how it started, meeting Nabokov's family, researching and writing, and the responsibility of writing the defining work on someone1:28:26: Which Nabokov book should new readers read first?1:30:58: A book or paper more people should read1:35:03: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner1:38:47: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrian's links • Website: geni.us/boyd-webBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe estate Nabokov inherent and immediately lost in th revolution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozhdestveno_Memorial_EstateAda online, Brian's line-by-line annotations to Nabokov's Ada: ada.auckland.ac.nz Boyd (1985/2001). Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Boyd (1990). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Boyd (1991). Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.Boyd & Pyle (eds) (2000). Nabokov’s Butterflies .Boyd (2001). Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.Grass (1959). Die Blechtrommel.James (1897). What Maisie Knew. Machado de Assis (1882). The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. [The 2 new translations are by Thomson-DeVeaux (Penguin Classics), and by Jull Costa & Patterson (Liveright)]Nabokov (1929). The (Luzhin) Defense. Nabokov (1936). Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov (1947). Bend Sinister. Nabokov (1955). Lolita. Nabokov (1957). Pnin. Nabokov (1962). Pale Fire. Nabokov (1967). Speak, Memory. Nabokov (1969). Ada or Ardor.Tarnowsky (1908). Les femmes homicides. [Nabokov's great-aunt; see also: Huff-Corzine & Toohy (2023). The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother. Journal of Criminal Justice]Vila, Bell, Macniven, Goldman-Huertas, Ree, Marshall, ... & Pierce (2011). Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience BJKS podcast 2024-01-13 | Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about Camillo's work on economic values in the brain, whether it is causally involved in choice, Camillo's career, working with different species, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: The historic background of economic value0:12:31: How Camillo became a neuroeconomist0:38:50: What does neuroscience add to our understanding of behaviour?0:47:52: Value in the brain / discussing Camillo's 2006 Nature paper1:05:47: Does the brain even need to compute value?1:11:59: Causality in neuroscience / discussing Camillo's 2020 Nature paper1:27:19: Trivial decisions1:31:26: Is it wise to do neuroscience in humans and in animals, or should I focus on one approach?1:40:15: A book or paper more people should read1:43:19: Something Camillo wishes he'd learnt sooner1:45:53: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtCamillo's links • Website: geni.us/padoa-schioppa-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/padoa-schioppa-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/padoa-schioppa-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBallesta ... & Padoa-Schioppa (2020). Values encoded in orbitofrontal cortex are causally related to economic choices. Nature.Bentham (1780). An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier (2011). Heuristic decision making. Annual review of psychology.Hayden & Niv (2021). The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain). Behavioral Neuroscience.Homer. Iliad.Homer. Odyssey.Padoa-Schioppa (2009). Range-adapting representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.Padoa-Schioppa (2011). Neurobiology of economic choice: a good-based model. Annual review of neuroscience.Padoa-Schioppa & Assad (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature.Padoa-Schioppa & Conen (2017). Orbitofrontal cortex: a neural circuit for economic decisions. Neuron.Padoa-Schioppa ... & Visalberghi (2006). Multi-stage mental process for economic choice in capuchins. Cognition.Padoa-Schioppa, Li & Bizzi (2002). Neuronal correlates of kinematics-to-dynamics transformation in the supplementary motor area. Neuron.Smith (1759). The theory of moral sentiments.Salzman ... & Newsome (1990). Cortical microstimulation influences perceptual judgements of motion direction. Nature.Salzman ... & Newsome (1992). Microstimulation in visual area MT: effects on direction discrimination performance. Journal of Neuroscience.Visalberghi & Trinca (1989). Tool use in capuchin monkeys: Distinguishing between performing and understanding. Primates. Episode w/ Smaldino: geni.us/bjks-smaldino_2
88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies BJKS podcast 2024-01-05 | Juliana Schroder is a professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In this conversation, we talk about her research in which she asks people to talk to strangers, and how this experience is usually a lot more pleasant than people expect. We talk about how the research came to be, what they found, how culture and norms affect the results, how to create robust and replicable field studies, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: The origin of Juliana's studies on talking to strangers02:15: Why don't people talk to strangers (during commutes)?05:46: What happens when strangers are forced to talk to each other?08:47: How to start a conversation13:31: Cultural differences in talking to strangers31:19: How to create robust and replicable field studies48:04: What's next for this line of research?54:14: A book or paper more people should read55:26: Something Juliana wishes she'd learnt sooner57:13: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJuliana's links • Website: geni.us/schroeder-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/schroeder-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/schroeder-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBoothby, Cooney, Sandstrom & Clark (2018). The liking gap in conversations: Do people like us more than we think? Psychological Science.Epley (2015). Mindwise: Why we misunderstand what others think, believe, feel, and want.Epley, Kardas, Zhao, Atir & Schroeder (2022). Undersociality: Miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.Epley & Schroeder (2014). Mistakenly seeking solitude. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.Kardas, Schroeder & O'Brien (2022). Keep talking: (Mis) understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.Roy (1997). The god of small things.Sandstrom, Boothby & Cooney (2022). Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Sandstrom & Boothby (2021). Why do people avoid talking to strangers? A mini meta-analysis of predicted fears and actual experiences talking to a stranger. Self and Identity.Schroeder, Lyons & Epley (2022). Hello, stranger? Pleasant conversations are preceded by concerns about starting one. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations BJKS podcast 2024-01-01 | Rick Betzel is an Associate professor at India University Bloomington. We talk about his research on network neuroscience, how to find good collaborators, Rick's path to network neuroscience, and much more.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: What's the purpose of connectomics if understanding a species' entire connectome (as in C elegans) doesn't allow us to fully understand its behaviour?0:03:57: Rick's very very linear path to network neuroscience0:19:41: Multi-scale brain networks0:43:40: Collaborations (between people who collect data and people who analyse data)0:52:33: The future of network neuroscience: generative modeling, network control, and edge-centric connectomics1:13:15: A book or paper more people should read1:15:55: Something Rick wishes he'd learnt sooner1:18:01: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRick's links • Website: geni.us/betzel-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/betzel-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/betzel-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAkarca ... (2021). A generative network model of neurodevelopmental diversity in structural brain organization. Nat Comm.Barabási (2003). Linked.Barabási & Albert (1999). Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science.Betzel (2022). Network neuroscience and the connectomics revolution. In Connectomic deep brain stimulation.Betzel & Bassett (2017). Multi-scale brain networks. Neuroimage.Betzel & Bassett (2017). Generative models for network neuroscience: prospects and promise. Journal of The Royal Society Interface.Betzel ... (2012). Synchronization dynamics and evidence for a repertoire of network states in resting EEG. Front comp neuro.Bullmore & Sporns (2009). Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems. Nat Rev Neuro.Cook ... (2019). Whole-animal connectomes of both Caenorhabditis elegans sexes. Nature.Feltner & Dapena (1986). Dynamics of the shoulder and elbow joints of the throwing arm during a baseball pitch. J Appl Biomech.Lindsay (2021). Models of the mind.Nieminen ... (2022). Multi-locus transcranial magnetic stimulation system for electronically targeted brain stimulation. Brain stimulation.Oh ... (2014). A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain. Nature.Rubinov & Sporns (2010). Complex network measures of brain connectivity: uses and interpretations. Neuroimage.Scheffer ... (2020). A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain. Elife.Sporns (2016). Networks of the Brain.Van Den Heuvel & Sporns (2011). Rich-club organization of the human connectome. J Neuro.Watts & Strogatz (1998). Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’networks. Nature.White ... (1986). The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B.Winding ... (2023). The connectome of an insect brain. Science.Yan ... (2017). Network control principles predict neuron function in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome. Nature.
86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection... BJKS podcast 2023-12-22 | Elisabeth Bik is a science integrity consultant. In this conversation, we talk about her work on reporting scientific errors and misconduct, how one becomes a full-time scientific integrity consultant, her postdoc work on the microbiome of dolphins, reactions to her work (both positive and negative), how to deal with online abuse, the arms race between fraudsters and fraud detectors, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Elisabeth became a full-time science integrity consultant0:04:45: The microbiome of dolphins0:12:02: What should I do if I find errors or fraud in a paper?0:28:58: Reactions to Elisabeth's work: awards, online abuse, and lots of silence from journals0:52:23: Should you report misconduct if you're in a vulnerable position?0:58:19: What problems are worth reporting?1:05:51: How does one become a (full-time) research integrity consultant?1:13:21: The arms race between people commiting fraud and people detecting fraud1:22:49: A book or paper more people should read1:25:26: Something Elisabeth wishes she'd learnt sooner1:29:09: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtElisabeth's links • Website: geni.us/bik-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bik-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bik-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksPubPeer: pubpeer.comCOPE: publicationethics.orgJohn Maddox Prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddox_PrizeEpisode w/ Joe Hilgard: geni.us/bjks-hilgardBik, Casadevall & Fang (2016). The prevalence of inappropriate image duplication in biomedical research publications. MBio.Bik, Costello, Switzer, Callahan, Holmes, Wells, ... & Relman (2016). Marine mammals harbor unique microbiotas shaped by and yet distinct from the sea. Nature Communications.Brown & Heathers (2017). The GRIM test: A simple technique detects numerous anomalies in the reporting of results in psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science.Reich (2009): Plastic fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific
85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI BJKS podcast 2023-12-15 | Peter Bandettini is director of the fMRI core facility at the National Institute of Mental Health. In this episode, we talk about the history, present, and future of fMRI, alongside Peter's career.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Peter got started working on fMRI in the early 1990s0:05:48: What was possible in neuroimaging in the late 80s0:18:44: Major advances in fMRI in the 1990s0:26:39: History of structural MRI0:29:02: Major advances in fMRI since 20000:40:11: The future of fMRI0:58:19: What is Peter working on?1:06:31: A book or paper more people should read1:14:36: Something Peter wishes he'd learnt sooner1:21:52: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPeter's links • Website: geni.us/bandettini-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bandettini-scholarBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholarReferencesThis episode broke the character limit of show notes, couldn't include all references. Bandettini ... (1992). Time course EPI of human brain function during task activation. Magnetic resonance in medicine.Belliveau ... (1991). Functional mapping of the human visual cortex by magnetic resonance imaging. Science.Biswal ... (1995). Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar MRI. Magnetic resonance in medicine.Blamire ... (1992). Dynamic mapping of the human visual cortex by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging. PNAS.Engel ... (1994). fMRI of human visual cortex. Nature.Finn ... (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nat Neuro.Gordon ... (2017). Precision functional mapping of individual human brains. Neuron.Gordon ... (2023). A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Nature.Hasson ... (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science.Huber ... (2017). High-resolution CBV-fMRI allows mapping of laminar activity and connectivity of cortical input and output in human M1. Neuron.Huth ... (2012). A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain. Neuron.Kamitani ... (2005). Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain. Nat Neuro.Kwong ... (1992). Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activity during primary sensory stimulation. PNAS.Newbold ... (2020). Plasticity and spontaneous activity pulses in disused human brain circuits. Neuron.Norman ... (2006). Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data. TiCS.Ogawa ... (1990). Brain magnetic resonance imaging with contrast dependent on blood oxygenation. PNAS.Ogawa ... (2000). An approach to probe some neural systems interaction by functional MRI at neural time scale down to milliseconds. PNAS.Sereno ... (1995). Borders of multiple visual areas in humans revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Science.Toi ... (2022). In vivo direct imaging of neuronal activity at high temporospatial resolution. Science.
84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure... BJKS podcast 2023-12-08 | Brian Nosek is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. In this conversation, we discuss the Center for Open Science, Brian's early interest in improving science, how COS got started, what Brian would like to do in the future, and how to figure out whether ideas are working.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Brian's early interest in improving science15:24: How the Center for Open Science got funded (by John and Laura Arnold)26:08: How long is COS financed into the future?29:01: What if COS isn't benefitting science anymore?35:42: Is Brian a scientist or an entrepreneur?40:58: The future of the Center for Open Science51:13: A book or paper more people should read54:42: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner58:53: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrian's links • Website: geni.us/nosek-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/nosek-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/nosek-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & LinksArticle about John Arnold: wired.com/2017/01/john-arnold-waging-war-on-bad-scienceScientific virtues (including stupidity): slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtuesCohen (1994). The earth is round (p＜. p05). American psychologist.Greenwald (1975). Consequences of prejudice against the null hypothesis. Psychological bulletin.Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: the implicit association test. Journal of personality and social psychology.Hardwicke & Ioannidis (2018). Mapping the universe of registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour.Meehl (1967). Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox. Philosophy of science.Nosek, Banaji & Greenwald (2002). Harvesting implicit group attitudes and beliefs from a demonstration web site. Group Dynamics: Theory, research, and practice.Nosek & Bar-Anan (2012). Scientific utopia: I. Opening scientific communication. Psychological Inquiry. Nosek, Spies & Motyl (2012). Scientific utopia: II. Restructuring incentives and practices to promote truth over publishability. Perspectives on Psychological Science.Rosenthal (1979). The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results. Psychological bulletin.Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science.Schwartz (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science.Uhlmann, Ebersole, Chartier, Errington, Kidwell, Lai, McCarthy, Riegelman, Silberzahn & Nosek (2019). Scientific utopia III: Crowdsourcing science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student BJKS podcast 2023-12-03 | Rachel Bedder is a postdoc with Yael Niv at Princeton. In this conversation, we talk about her research on rumination and repetitive negative thinking (in the context of a partially observable Markov decision process), her work as a curator, why she enjoys teaching without grades, how to manage yourself as a PhD student, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Teaching maths in prison0:06:40: Teaching without grades0:15:42: Working as a full-time research assistant (after BSc) and dealing with lots of rejections0:25:51: How Rachel ended up doing a postdoc with Yael Niv0:32:08: Discussing Rachel's conference proceedings 'Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process' (featuring partially observable Markov decision processes)0:56:49: Rachel's background in art and curation1:10:58: How to not turn hobbies into a stressful thing you need to get done1:14:46: A book or paper more people should read1:16:47: Something Rachel wishes she'd learnt sooner1:19:05: Advice for PhD students/postdocs, with a twist: 5 tips for managing yourself during a PhDPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRachel's links • Website: geni.us/bedder-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bedder-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bedder-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisodes with Matthias Stangl and Toby Wise about postdoc jobs & fellowships:geni.us/bjks-wise-postdocgeni.us/bjks-postdoc-stanglEpisode with Paul Smaldino on modelling social behaviour, and with Eiko Fried on theories in psychologygeni.us/bjks-smaldino_2geni.us/bjks-friedPOMDPs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_decision_processDear World Project: engagement.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/projects/dear-world-project5 tips for managing yourself during a PhD: rachelbedder.com/phdtipsScientific virtues (including stupidity): slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtuesBedder, Pisupati & Niv (2023) Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tfjqnBurkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals.McCullers (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.Montague, Dolan, Friston & Dayan (2012). Computational psychiatry. Trends in cognitive sciences.
82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking BJKS podcast 2023-11-24 | Geoff Cumming is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on New Statistics: estimation instead of hypothesis testing, meta-analytic thinking, and many related topics.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: A brief history of statistics, p-values, and confidence intervals0:32:02: Meta-analytic thinking0:42:56: Why do p-values seem so random?0:45:59: Are p-values and estimation complementary?0:47:09: How do I know how many participants I need (without a power calculation)?0:50:27: Problems of the estimation approach (big data)1:00:08: A book or paper more people should read1:02:50: Something Geoff wishes he'd learnt sooner1:04:52: Advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGeoff's links • Website: geni.us/cumming-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/cumming-scholar • Mastodon: https://nerdculture.de/@thenewstatsBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/linksDance of the p-values: youtube.com/watch?v=5OL1RqHrZQ8Significance roulette: youtube.com/watch?v=OcJImS16jR4Episode with Simine Vazire (SIPS): geni.us/bjks-vazireCoulson, ...(2010). Confidence intervals permit, but don't guarantee, better inference than statistical significance testing. Front in Psychol.Cumming & Calin-Jageman (2016/2024). Introduction to the new statistics: Estimation, open science, and beyond.Cumming (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychol Sci.Cumming & Finch (2005). Inference by eye: confidence intervals and how to read pictures of data. American Psychol.Errington, ... (2021) Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: Challpenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology. eLife.Errington, ... (2021) Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology. eLife.Finch & Cumming (2009). Putting research in context: Understanding confidence intervals from one or more studies. J of Pediatric Psychol.Hedges (1987). How hard is hard science, how soft is soft science? The empirical cumulativeness of research. American Psychologist.Hunt (1997). How science takes stock: The story of meta-analysis.Ioannidis (2005). Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Medicine.Loftus (1996). Psychology will be a much better science when we change the way we analyze data. Curr direct psychol sci.Maxwell, ... (2008). Sample size planning for statistical power and accuracy in parameter estimation. Annu Rev Psychol.Oakes (1986). Statistical inference: A commentary for the social and behavioural sciences.Pennington (2023). A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis Reform Psychology.Rothman (1986). Significance questing. Annals of Int Med.Schmidt (1996). Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology: Implications for training of researchers. Psychol Methods.
81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences BJKS podcast 2023-11-17 | Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on growth mindset and deliberate practice, whether deliberate practice is falsifiable, the benefits of diverse experiences, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Brooke started working on mindset and deliberate practice0:02:10: (Growth) mindset: does it matter?0:21:10: Mindset interventions0:36:48: Deliberate practice0:47:06: Benefits of diverse experiences0:56:20: Is the theory of deliberate practice unfalsifiable?0:59:36: What can we take practically from the growth mindset and deliberate pratice research?1:01:06: A book or paper more people should read1:02:10: Something Brooke wishes she'd learnt sooner1:04:32: Advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrooke's links • Website: geni.us/macnamara-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/macnamara-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/macnamara-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/links Brainology mindset intervention: mindsetworks.com/programs/brainology-for-schoolsTrello: trello.comBurgoyne, Hambrick, & Macnamara (2020). How firm are the foundations of mind-set theory? The claims appear stronger than the evidence. Psychol Science.Dweck (2006). Mindset-Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential.Epstein (2021). Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world.Ericsson & Harwell (2019). Deliberate practice and proposed limits on the effects of practice on the acquisition of expert performance. Frontiers in Psychol.Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychol Rev.Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The story of success.Macnamara & Burgoyne (2023). Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. Psychol Bull.Macnamara, Hambrick & Oswald (2014). Deliberate practice and performance in music, games, sports, education, and professions: A meta-analysis. Psychol Science.Macnamara & Maitra (2019). The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: Revisiting Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). Royal Society Open Science.Macnamara, Moreau & Hambrick (2016). The relationship between deliberate practice and performance in sports: A meta-analysis. Perspec Psychol Science. Macnamara, Prather & Burgoyne (2023). Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies. Nat Rev Psychol.Sisk, Burgoyne, Sun, Butler & Macnamara (2018). To what extent and under which circumstances are growth mind-sets important to academic achievement? Two meta-analyses. Psychol Science.
80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological s... BJKS podcast 2023-11-10 | Simine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose of journals and peer review, Simine's plans for being Editor-in-Chief at Psychological Science, the hidden curriculum of scienitic publishing, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: What is SIPS and why did Simine cofound it?0:05:10: Why Simine resigned from the NASEM Reproducibility & Replicability committee0:13:07: Do we still need journals and peer review in 2023?0:28:04: What does an Editor-in-Chief actually do?0:37:09: Simine will be EiC of Psychological Science0:59:44: The 'hidden curriculum' of scientific publishing1:04:03: Why Siminie created a GoFundMe for DataColada1:15:10: A book or paper more people should read1:17:10: Something Simine wishes she'd learnt sooner1:18:44: Advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtSimine's links • Website: geni.us/vazire-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/vazire-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/vazire-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/linksEpisode of Black Goat Podcast I mentioned: blackgoat.podbean.com/e/simine-flips-outMini-interview with Simine in Science: science.org/content/article/how-reform-minded-new-editor-psychology-s-flagship-journal-will-shake-thingsMy 2nd interview w/ Adam Mastroianni, and his blog post on peer review:geni.us/bjks-mastroianni_2Interview w/ Chris Chambers and Peer community in RRgeni.us/bjks-chambersSimine's vision statement for Psychological Sciencedrive.google.com/file/d/1mozmB2m5kxOoPvQSqDSguRrP5OobutU6/viewGOFUNDME for Data Colada's legal feesgofundme.com/f/uhbka-support-data-coladas-legal-defenseFrancesca Gino's responsefrancesca-v-harvard.orgNYT Magazine article about Amy Cuddy (and Joe Simmons)nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.htmlStreisand effecten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effectHolcombe (during dogwalk). On peer review. Personal communication to Simine.Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science.Reich (2009): Plastic fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific
79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mento... BJKS podcast 2023-11-03 | Nanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how the technologies have changed and what might happen in the future. We also talk about how she runs her lab, how to learn as a PI, and what Nanthia enjoys about mentoring students and postdocs.We had some minor audio issues, so Nanthia switched her recording setup twice during the conversation. Sound should still be good though.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Was it good that Nanthia finished school so young?01:27: How invasive recordings in humans have changed over the past 15 years10:45: The future of invasive recordings in humans19:29: Mentorship in academia30:01: Learning as a PI36:02: Book or paper more people should read40:53: Something Nanthia wishes she'd learnt sooner45:42: Advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNanthia's links • Website: geni.us/suthana-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/suthana-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/suthana-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksNanthia's episode in Stories of Women in Neuroscience: storiesofwin.org/profiles/2021/3/24/dr-nanthia-suthanaEpisodes w/ Matthias Stangl and Gareth Barnes:geni.us/bjks-barnesgeni.us/bjks-stanglgeni.us/bjks-postdoc-stanglBoto et al (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.Feinsinger et al (2022). Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans. Neuron.Gill et al (2023). A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder. Nature Communications.Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser & Moser (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.Preston, Kuper-Smith & Ehrsson (2015). Owning the body in the mirror: The effect of visual perspective and mirror view on the full-body illusion. Scientific Reports.Sacks (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat.Scoville & Milner (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.Stangl, Topalovic, ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.Stangl, Maoz & Suthana (2023). Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.Topalovic et al (2023). A wearable platform for closed-loop stimulation and recording of single-neuron and local field potential activity in freely moving humans. Nature Neuroscience.
78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause BJKS podcast 2023-10-27 | Gillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went from Ireland to doing a PhD in the UK, different ways for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, what beta-amyloid and tau are, what spatial navigation has to do with dementia, and whether early menopause can affect women's spatial navigation performance and risk of getting dementia.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Playing the piano07:13: How Gillian ended up doing her PhD with Michael Hornberger in Norwich14:02: How to find a good mentor16:48: Sea Hero Quest22:28: Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease32:37: The role of Beta-Amyloid and tau in dementia34:41: Spatial navigation, the entorhinal cortex, and dementia44:14: Does menopause affect spatial navigation and risk of dementia?50:31: Book or paper more people should read52:37: Something Gillain wishes she'd learnt sooner55:31: Advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGillian's links • Google Scholar: geni.us/coughlan-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/coughlan-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisodes with Michael Hornberger and Hugo Spiersgeni.us/bjks-hornbergergeni.us/bjks-spiers Coughlan, DeSouza, Zhukovsky, Hornberger, Grady & Buckley (2023). Spatial cognition is associated with levels of phosphorylated-tau and β-amyloid in clinically normal older adults. Neurobiology of Aging.Coughlan, ... Buckley (2023). Association of age at menopause and hormone therapy use with tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography. JAMA Neurology.Coughlan, Coutrot, Khondoker, Minihane, Spiers & Hornberger (2019). Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease. PNAS.Coughlan, Laczó, Hort, Minihane & Hornberger (2018). Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?. Nature Reviews Neurology.Eger (2017). The Choice.Pertesi, Coughlan, Puthusseryppady, Morris & Hornberger (2019). Menopause, cognition and dementia–A review. Post reproductive health.
77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal deve... BJKS podcast 2023-10-20 | Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our second conversation. We discuss how the Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map was received, Lynn's career, including his years as head of department at the University of Arizona, how to foster collaboration, why Lynn started the Hippocampal History project, and the development and clinical aspects of the hippocampus.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Who was A. Black?03:38: How was The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map received?08:08: Lynn's wandering years15:46: At the University of Arizona21:24: How to foster collaboration28:29: Being a head of department38:22: The Hippocampal History project42:56: Lynn's developmental workPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLynn's links • Website: geni.us/nadel-web • Mastodon: geni.us/nadel-mastodonBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesLynn's first episode: geni.us/bjks-nadelBlack, Nadel & O'Keefe (1977). Hippocampal function in avoidance learning and punishment. Psychological Bulletin.Edgin, Spano, Kawa & Nadel (2014). Remembering things without context: development matters. Child development.Goddard (1964). Functions of the amygdala. Psychological bulletin.Lynch (1979). Representations in the Brain: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel. Science.Nadel & Moscovitch (1997). Memory consolidation, retrograde amnesia and the hippocampal complex. Current opinion in neurobiology.Nadel, Samsonovich, Ryan & Moscovitch (2000). Multiple trace theory of human memory: computational, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological results. Hippocampus.Nadel, Willner & Kurz (1986). The neurobiology of mental representations. In Myles Brand (ed.), The Representation of Knowledge and Belief. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Free download: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103569O'Keefe & Nadel (1979). Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel's The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.Pennington, Moon, Edgin, Stedron & Nadel (2003). The neuropsychology of Down syndrome: evidence for hippocampal dysfunction. Child development.Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS. Squire, Nadel & Slater (1981). Anterograde amnesia and memory for temporal order. Neuropsychologia.Sutherland & Rudy (1989). Configural association theory: The role of the hippocampal formation in learning, memory, and amnesia. Psychobiology.
76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psycholo... BJKS podcast 2023-10-13 | Adam Mastroianni is a scientist who writes the Substack 'Experimental History'. This is our second conversation. We discuss science as a strong-link problem, why everyone is allowed to do science, and some of Adam's suggestions for how science can be done differently.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Adam's Substack is now his main thing0:05:32: Paradigms in psychology0:16:40: Who's allowed to do science? Science as a strong-link problem0:36:41: A fleet of ships, The Psychology House, and Dan Gilbert's supervsion1:06:53: How to cultivate good feedback1:13:20: A book, paper, or blog post more people should read1:16:26: Something Adam wishes he'd learnt sooner1:18:34: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdam's links • Website: geni.us/mastroianni-web • Substack: experimentalhistory.substack.com • Google Scholar: geni.us/mastroianni-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/mastroianni-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtLinks1st episode with Adam: geni.us/bjks-mastroianniPure green in Blackadder: youtube.com/watch?v=mDIJiwNk2n8Blog postsexperimental-history.com/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-theexperimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-societyexperimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem experimental-history.com/p/the-experimental-history-experimentexperimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-reviewsmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/psychology-is-okslimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtuesBehind the Bastard's episode about libertarians recreating governments at sea: iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-not-at-all-sad-history-of-89890804 References Cosmides & Tooby (2015). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. The handbook of evo psych.Gilbert (2006). Stumbling on happiness.Hesse (1922). Siddhartha.Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. psyarxiv.com/2uxwk Richerson & Boyd (1978). A dual inheritance model of the human evolutionary process. J of Soc and Bio Structu
75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond tradi... BJKS podcast 2023-10-06 | Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, where he studies the evolution of behavior in response to social, cultural, and ecological pressures. In this conversation, we talk about his new book Modeling Social Behavior, everything related to formal models of social behaviour, and Paul's path to where he is today.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Paul's new book 'Modeling Social Behavior'0:04:42: Paul's somewhat circuitous route to doing what he does today0:25:54: Why so interdisciplinary?0:36:58: The importance of (metaphorical) violence in modeling0:46:26: Newton's model of gravitation ignores almost everything0:52:11: Exact vs inexact sciences1:00:02: From simple to complex models of cooperation, and the complementarity of simulations and equations1:11:48: When is formal modeling appropriate and when is it too soon?1:27:47: A book or paper Paul thinks more people should read1:32:46: What Paul wishes he'd learnt sooner1:36:20: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPaul's links • Website: geni.us/smaldino-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/smaldino-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/smaldino-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesPrevious episode with Paul: geni.us/bjks-smaldinoAxelrod & Hamilton (1981). The evolution of cooperation. Science.Boyd & Richerson (1988). Culture and the evolutionary process.Friston (2012). The history of the future of the Bayesian brain. NeuroImage.Giraldeau & Caraco (2000). Social foraging theory. Princeton University Press.Giraldeau & Gillis (1985). Optimal group size can be stable: a reply to Sibly. Animal Behaviour.Gleick (2004). Isaac Newton.Glimcher (2004). Decisions, uncertainty, and the brain: The science of neuroeconomics.Hamilton (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour. Journal of theoretical biology.Kauffman (1970). Articulation of parts explanation in biology and the rational search for them. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.Kay (2010). Obliquity.Nowak & May (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature.Smaldino (2023). Modeling social behavior: Mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution. Princeton University Press.Smaldino (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them. Computational social psychology.Smaldino, Pickett, Sherman & Schank (2012). An agent-based model of social identity dynamics. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.Turchin (2003). Historical dynamics: Why states rise and fall.Wimsatt (1987). False models as means to truer theories. Neutral models in biology.Wimsatt (2007). Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings: Piecewise approximations to reality.Zukav (2012). The dancing Wu Li masters: An overview of the new physics.
74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination BJKS podcast 2023-08-11 | Moin Syed is a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he studies identity and personality development. Our conversation focuses on his work in meta-science, especially the role of journals and editors in the scientific process.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: The silliness of prestige journals (especially PNAS)0:18:45: Deep description are necessary for science and theory0:29:43: Where should I submit my paper?0:35:51: Why would one want to be an editor at a journal?0:55:27: Cover letters1:03:44: Should I sign my peer reviews?1:13:03: A book/paper Moin thinks more people should read1:19:23: Something Moin wishes he'd learnt earlier1:29:22: Moin's advice to PhD students/postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMoin's links • Website: geni.us/syed-web • Substack/blog: geni.us/syed-blog • Google Scholar: geni.us/syed-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/syed-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/linksFor Moin's blog posts on prestige journals, being an editor, etc. see link above for his Substack/blogGelman on Himmicanes: washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/05/hurricanes-vs-himmicanesEpisodes w/ Chris Chambers (geni.us/bjks-chambers) and Mary-Elizabeth Sutherland (geni.us/bjks-sutherland)Bem (1987). Writing the empirical journal article. The compleat academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist.Cooper (1987). Conceptualizing research on adolescent development in the family: Four root metaphors. Journal of Adolescent Research.Crüwell, ... (2023). What’s in a badge? A computational reproducibility investigation... Psychological Science.DeYoung (2015). Cybernetic big five theory. Journal of research in personality.Dougherty & Horne (2022). Citation counts and journal impact factors do not capture ... Royal Society Open Science.Forestier, ... (2022). From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon. Motivation Science.Hagger, ... (2016). A multilab preregistered replication of the ego-depletion effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Jung, ... (2014). Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Palminteri (2023, February 26). How to prepare a rebuttal letter: Some advice from a scientist, reviewer and editor. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kyfus Pepper (1942). World hypotheses: A study in evidence. Univ of California Press. Rozin (2001). Social psychology and science: Some lessons from Solomon Asch. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism BJKS podcast 2023-06-23 | Tom Hostler is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this conversation, we focus on his recent article on the increased workload caused by open science.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Start discussing Tom's paper 'The Invisible Workload of Open Research'0:29:22: Does open science actually increase workload?0:44:26: How open science changes the research process0:54:02: Are open science requirements especially time consuming for labs without lots of funding?1:01:44: What are the most effective open science practices?1:06:31: Book or paper Tom thinks more people should read1:09:39: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:13:32: Tom's advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's links • Website: geni.us/hostler-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/hostler-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/hostler-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences Aczel, Szaszi, Sarafoglou et al. A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nat Hum Behav 4, 4–6 (2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6 Bozeman, Youtie & Jung (2021). Death by a thousand 10-minute tasks: Workarounds and noncompliance in university research administration. Administration & Society. doi.org/10.1177/0095399720947994Costantini, Cordero, Campbell, … Pearson, R. M. (2021). Mental Health Intergenerational Transmission (MHINT) Process Manual. doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/s6n4hDienes (2008). Understanding psychology as a science: An introduction to scientific and statistical inference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Forscher, Wagenmakers, Coles, Silan, Dutra, Basnight-Brown & IJzerman (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of big-team science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.Hostler (2023). The Invisible Workload of Open Research. Journal of Trial & Error. doi.org/10.36850/mr5Nickerson (2000). Null hypothesis significance testing: a review of an old and continuing controversy. Psychological methods.Schneider (2015). The censor's hand: The misregulation of human-subject research. MIT Press.LinksUK REF: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_FrameworkMark Rubin's Critical Metascience Blog: markrubin.substack.comReporting checklist: equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines
72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI BJKS podcast 2023-06-04 | Nico Schuck is Professor and head of the research group 'Mechanisms of learning and change' at the University of Hamburg, where his research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, memory, and cognitive maps. In this conversation, we discuss his work on cognitive maps and replay in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Hippocampus, decoding even brief events with fMRI, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Nico's work elicits 'limited enthusiasm'04:36: Multivariate decoding with fMRI13:23: Start discussing Nico's paper 'Human OFC represents a cognitive map of state space'19:39: Weird tasks in computational neuroscience27:30: Start discussing Nico's paper ' Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus'36:45: How can the slow fMRI signal pick up on very fast neural dynamics?43:02: What is Orbitofrontal Cortex and what does it do?49:24: Some books and papers more people should read55:17: Something Nico wishes he'd learnt sooner56:40: Advice for young scientistsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNico's links • Website: geni.us/schuck-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/schuck-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/schuck-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAly & Turk-Browne (2016). Attention stabilizes representations in the human hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex.Bishop (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. New York: Springer.Kaplan, Schuck & Doeller (2017). The role of mental maps in decision-making. Trends in Neurosciences.Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.Moneta, Garvert, Heekeren & Schuck (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications.Schuck, Cai, Wilson & Niv (2016). Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space. Neuron.Schuck & Niv (2019). Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus. Science.Shepard (1987). Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science.Skaggs & McNaughton (1996). Replay of neuronal firing sequences in rat hippocampus during sleep following spatial experience. Science.Sutton & Barto (2018). Reinforcement learning: An introduction. MIT press.Tang, LeBel, Jain & Huth (2023). Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. Nature Neuroscience.Todd, Nystrom & Cohen(2013). Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: theory and rule representation case study. Neuroimage.Wilson, Takahashi, Schoenbaum & Niv (2014). Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space. Neuron.
70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry BJKS podcast 2023-04-08 | Mona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:00: How Mona started working on cognitive maps15:28: Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation28:49: Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex'40:07: Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain?43:37: Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization'55:50: Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatryPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMona's links • Website: geni.us/garvert-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/garvert-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/garvert-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksMona's talk at TCPW: quentinhuys.com/tcpw/events/mona-garvertWhere Mona now works: alena.comBarron, Garvert & Behrens (2016). Repetition suppression: a means to index neural representations using BOLD? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Clark & Wells (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In Heimberg, Liebowitz, Hope, & Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature. Garvert, Dolan & Behrens (2017). A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal–entorhinal cortex. eLife.Garvert & Gollisch (2013). Local and global contrast adaptation in retinal ganglion cells. Neuron.Garvert, Moutoussis, Kurth-Nelson, Behrens & Dolan (2015). Learning-induced plasticity in medial prefrontal cortex predicts preference malleability. Neuron. Garvert, Saanum, Schulz, Schuck & Doeller (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience. Klein-Flügge, Barron, Brodersen, Dolan & Behrens (2013). Segregated encoding of reward–identity and stimulus–reward associations in human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Schapiro, Rogers, Cordova, Turk-Browne & Botvinick (2013). Neural representations of events arise from temporal community structure. Nature Neuroscience.Stachenfeld, Botvinick & Gershman (2017). The hippocampus as a predictive map. Nature Neuroscience.
69. Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces, knowledge representation, and semantics BJKS podcast 2023-04-01 | Peter Gärdenfors is an Emeritus Professor at Lund University at the Department of Philosophy. His work is at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive, psychology, and linguistics. In this conversation, we discuss his book Conceptual spaces and many of the topics discussed therein (convexity, prototypes, metrics), whether the theory is falsifiable, how it can explain aspects of semantics and of how children learn, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Where is the neuroscience (especially about spatial navigation) in Conceptual Spaces?0:04:54: What are conceptual spaces?0:14:53: How Peter went from decision theory to knowledge representation0:20:25: Dimensions and metrics in conceptual spaces0:35:29: Is the theory of conceptual spaces falsifiable?0:38:41: Conceptual spaces of semantics0:51:54: 3 levels of representation across evolution0:55:41: The future of conceptual spaces1:01:09: Something Peter wishes he'd learned sooner1:04:31: A paper or book Peter thinks more people should readPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPeter's links • Website: geni.us/gardenfors-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/gardenfors-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/gardenfors-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBellmund, Gärdenfors, Moser & Doeller (2018). Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking. Science. Gardenfors (2004). Conceptual spaces: The geometry of thought. MIT press.Gardenfors (2014). The geometry of meaning: Semantics based on conceptual spaces. MIT press. Marr (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. MIT press. Zwarts & Gärdenfors (2016). Locative and directional prepositions in conceptual spaces: The role of polar convexity. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. First episode of our discussion of Conceptual Spaces as part of this podcast's book club series: geni.us/bjks-concept-space-1
68. Isabel Thielmann: Economic games, personality, and affordances BJKS podcast 2023-03-19 | Isabel Thielmann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the study of crime, security and law. In this conversation, we talk about her background as a competitive sprinter, her research on prosocial behaviour and personality, the role of affordances, how game theory and interdependence theory can helpus understand human social behaviour, and Isa's experiences in having started a lab.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Isa used to be a pretty good sprinter0:11:03: Lessons from athletics0:16:40: How Isa got into psychology and doing science0:26:47: Breadth vs depth in research topics0:33:32: Start discussing Isa's review article 'Economics Games: an introduction and guide for research'0:46:06: What are game theory and interdependence theory?0:59:06: Affordances and economic games1:10:44: Personality and economic games1:34:20: Isa's experiences starting her lab and becoming a PIPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtIsa's links • Website: geni.us/thielmann-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/thielmann-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/Thielmann-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAmir, Rand & Gal (2012). Economic games on the internet: The effect of $1 stakes. PloS one. Cameron (1999). Raising the stakes in the ultimatum game: Experimental evidence from Indonesia. Econ Inquiry.Columbus, Münich & Gerpott (2020). Playing a different game: Situation perception mediates framing effects on cooperative behaviour. J Exp Soc Psych.Diehl, Thielmann, Thiel, Mayer, Zipfel & Schneider (2014). Possibilities to support elite adolescent athletes in improving performance: Results from a qualitative content analysis. Science & sports.Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez (2019). On the external validity of social preference games: a systematic lab-field study. Management Science.Halevy, Chou & Murnighan (2012). Mind games: the mental representation of conflict. J perso and soc psych.Kuper-Smith, Voulgaris, Briken, Fuss & Korn (2022). Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners. PsyArXiv.Liebrand (1984). The effect of social motives, communication and group size on behaviour in an N‐person multi‐stage mixed‐motive game. Eur J soc psych.Peysakhovich, Nowak & Rand (2014). Humans display a ‘cooperative phenotype’that is domain general and temporally stable. Nat Comm.Thielmann, Böhm, Ott & Hilbig (2021). Economic games: An introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psych.Thielmann & Hilbig (2015). Trust: An integrative review from a person–situation perspective. Review of Gen Psych. Thielmann, Spadaro & Balliet (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psych Bull.Adam Mastroianni's article on conversational doorknobs: experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
67. Daniela Schiller: Social spaces, cognitive maps, and clinical applications BJKS podcast 2023-02-12 | Daniela Schiller is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she studies the neural mechanisms of emotional control and flexibility. In this conversation, we talk about her work on cognitive maps for social behaviour, the importance of power and affiliation for our social lives, the difficulties of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI, and potential psychiatric applications of cognitive maps.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:04: Daniela's drumming03:31: How Daniela started working on (social) cognitive maps08:42: The 2 perspectives on the hippocampus: spatial navigation and episodic memory for relational learning and cognitive maps15:22: Power and affiliation as fundamental social dimensions19:24: Start discussing Daniela's paper 'A map for social navigation in the human brain'28:45: The difficulty of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI42:51: Clinical applications of cognitive mapsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtDaniela's links • Website: geni.us/schiller-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/schiller-scholarBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe Amygdaloids: youtube.com/@theamygdaloidsBellmund, De Cothi, Ruiter, Nau, Barry & Doeller (2020). Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory. Nature Human Behaviour.Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature.Jacobs, ... & Kahana (2013). Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature Neuroscience.Montagrin, Saiote & Schiller (2018). The social hippocampus. Hippocampus.Schafer & Schiller (2018). Navigating social space. Neuron.Schafer, Kamilar-Britt, Sahani, Bachi & Schiller (2022). Hippocampal Place-like Signal in Latent Space. bioRxiv. Schiller, Eichenbaum, Buffalo, Davachi, Foster, Leutgeb & Ranganath (2015). Memory and space: towards an understanding of the cognitive map. Journal of Neuroscience. Tavares, Mendelsohn, Grossman, Williams, Shapiro, Trope & Schiller (2015). A map for social navigation in the human brain. Neuron.Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review.Yartsev, Witter & Ulanovsky (2011). Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature.
66. Rafael Pérez y Pérez: Story Machines, Creative AI, and Mexian serenades BJKS podcast 2023-02-05 | Rafael Pérez y Pérez is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, where he studies computational creativity, in particular in relation to computer programs that can write stories. In this conversation, we talk about MEXICA, the story generator he has been working on for most of his career, his newly released book Story Machines (with Mike Sharples), the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to creating stories with AI, what the future holds, whether large companies like Amazon are working on these topics, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:05: How Rafael ended up doing his PhD on artificial creativity in Sussex07:00: Why did Rafael create MEXICA? / A more human system for generating stories24:45: Many approaches of generating stories30:46: Is a combination of symbolic and connectionist approaches (neuro-symbolic AI) the solution to creating machines that write stories?33:23: Why might GPT-3 not work for stories or The risk of singing a Mexican sereneade to a Norwegian43:38: Are there fundamental barries for AI writing convincing fiction without actually living in the real world?47:54: Is Amazon developing AI to write fiction?53:59: What will happen in the next 5-10 years of AI writing stories?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRafael's links • Website: geni.us/perez-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/perez-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/perez-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksChat GPT: openai.com/blog/chatgpt Mnih, Kavukcuoglu, Silver, ... & Hassabis (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature. Mueller (1990). Daydreaming in humans and machines: a computer model of the stream of thought. Intellect Books. Pérez y Pérez & Sharples (2004). Three computer-based models of storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA. Knowledge-based systems.Propp (1968). Morphology of the Folktale. University of Texas Press.Sharples & Pérez y Pérez (2022). Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers. Routledge. Sharples & Pérez y Pérez (2023). Introduction to narrative generators. Oxford University PressTurner (1993). MINSTREL: A computer model of creativity and storytelling, PhD Dissertation, University of California LA.
65. Adam Mastroianni: Conversational doorknobs, improv comedy, and a very dumb academic revolution BJKS podcast 2022-12-10 | Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Substack/blog, his article Things Could Be Better and why he chose to publish it this way, improv comedy, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:01:20: Did Adam fake having a girlfriend when he appeared on Come Dine With Me?0:08:51: Adam's Substack called 'Experimental History'0:10:51: Good conversations have lots of doorknobs0:15:33: What can people learn from improv comedy?0:23:10: Why did Adam start his Substack? / A discussion of academia, alternative ways of doing science, and the problems with academic publishing1:12:26: Start discussing Adam's paper 'Do conversations end when people want them to?'1:27:28: What makes for a good conversation?1:29:59: Some words of advice from AdamPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdam's links • Website: geni.us/mastroianni-web • Substack: experimentalhistory.substack.com • Google Scholar: geni.us/mastroianni-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/mastroianni-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtLinksRowan Atkinson saying words in a funny way: youtube.com/watch?v=9UhHrtKx8-sSubstack article on conversational doorknobs: experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobsslimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtuesEpisode with Joe Hilgard about scientific fraud: geni.us/bjks-hilgardGet me off your mailing list: vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scamDan Quintana's YouTube with Tutorials: youtube.com/@dsquintanaAdam's Rhodes speech: youtube.com/watch?v=7H68w3543lken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlinesnytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.htmlReferencesGilbert (2009). Stumbling on happiness.Mastroianni, Gilbert, Cooney, & Wilson (2021). Do conversations end when people want them to? PNAS.Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. psyarxiv.com/2uxwkSchwartz (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science.
64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering BJKS podcast 2022-11-17 | Gareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled into working on MEG, what MEG is, and some of his recent projects, including the exciting new generation of MEG scanners: OPM-MEG.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes appear roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:03: How I found out about Gareth's work0:02:31: What is MEG?0:07:04: Flexible headcasts for MEG0:19:49: How Gareth accidentally started working on MEG (after writing fiction in France)0:28:46: The early days of MEG at Aston University (starting with a single channel)0:40:58: The new generation of MEG: Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG)1:13:33: Mouth MEG and measuring hippocampus with MEG1:21:06: The relationship between methods development and discovery in basic sciencePodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGareth's links • Website: geni.us/barnes-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/barnes-scholarBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtLinksMEG in the UK: meguk.ac.ukMEG image: https://biomaglaboratory.fi/wp-content/themes/biomagille/images/meg_image_20210422b.jpgCerca MEG: cercamagnetics.comFieldline MEG: fieldlineinc.comYoung Epilepsy: youngepilepsy.org.ukSphenoidal electrodes: epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(03)00023-4/fulltextReferencesBoto, ... & Brookes (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.Boto, ... & Brookes (2019). Wearable neuroimaging: Combining and contrasting magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. NeuroImage.Hill, ... & Brookes (2019). A tool for functional brain imaging with lifespan compliance. Nature Communications.Meyer, ... & Barnes (2017). Flexible head-casts for high spatial precision MEG. Journal of neuroscience methods.Sander, ... & Knappe (2012). Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. Biomedical optics express.Seymour, ... & Maguire (2021). Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants. NeuroImage.Stangl, ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2019). Optically pumped magnetometers: From quantum origins to multi-channel magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2021). Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus. NeuroImage.Vivekananda, ... & Walker (2020). Optically pumped magnetoencephalography in epilepsy. Annals of clinical and translational neurology.
63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural... BJKS podcast 2022-09-28 | Adeyemi Adetula is a PhD student at the University of Grenoble, where he is leading the ManyLabs Africa project. In this conversation, we talk about that project, his recent commentary 'Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa', how Western researchers can best collaborate with African researchers, and much more. Timestamps0:00:05: How Adeyemi went from psychology student in Nigeria to PhD student in France0:13:27: ManyLabs Africa0:18:54: Synergy between the Credibility Revolution and research development in Africa0:25:26: How and why Adeyemi crowdfunded his PhD0:36:42: Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa0:54:47: How can Western researchers test their theories in more diverse samples?1:03:47: Pounded yam with Egusi soup and bushmeatPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdeyemi's links • Google Scholar: geni.us/adetula-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/adetula-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksManyLabs Africa: osf.io/vh6tdCollaborative Replications and Education Project: crep-psych.orgCREP Africa: osf.io/kvhzgSci-Hub: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-HubAdeyemi's GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/support-african-scholar-in-financial-distressAdeyemi's Patreon: patreon.com/support_adeyemi_adetula_dreamAdetula, ... IJzerman (2022). Psychology should generalize from—not just to—Africa. Nat Rev Psych.Adetula, ... IJzerman (2021). Synergy Between the Credibility Revolution and Human Development in Africa. AfricArXive.Adetula, … IJzerman, H. (2021). The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019). AfricArXiveKlein, ... Nosek (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Soc Psych.Rottman & Young (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psych Sci.The 5 shortlisted African papers for the ManyLabs Africa replication:Bevan-Dye & Akpojivi (2016). South African Generation Y students’ self-disclosure on Facebook. South African J of Psych.Kombo, S. (n.d.). Using behavioural informed communication to drive civic engagement. [Unpublished paper] busaracenter.org/case_studies/behaviorally-informed-communication-to-drive-civic-engagementMgbokwere, Esienumoh & Uyana (2015). Perception and attitudes of parents towards teenage pregnancy in a rural community of Cross river state, Nigeria. Global J of Pure & Applied Sci.Ojedokun (2015). Extramarital affair as correlate of reproductive health and home instability among couples in Ibadan, Nigeria. African J of Social Work. Teye-Kwadjo, Kagee & Swart (2018). Condom use negotiation among high school adolescents in Ghana: The role of gender. South African J of Psych.
62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes BJKS podcast 2022-09-13 | Nils Köbis is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he studies the intersection of AI and corruption. In this conversation, we talk about how Nils got into working on this topic, and some of his recent papers on AI, corruption, deepfakes, and AI poetry.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month.Timestamps0:00:04: Moral Games0:13:09: How Nils started working at the intersection of AI and corruption0:30:12: Start discussing 'Bad machines corrput good morals'1:01:00: Start discussing Nils's papers on whether people can detect AI-generated poems and videos1:25:59: Learning to say no and to not get sidetracked1:31:05: Writing a PhD thesisPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNils's links • Website: geni.us/koebis-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/koebis-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/Koebis-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksMoral Games (in German): geni.us/moral-gamesNils's podcast KickBack: icrnetwork.org/what-we-do/kickback-global-anticorruption-podcastReplika AI app: replika.comScience fiction science: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm/guiding-concepts/concept-2-science-fiction-scienceCollingridge dilemma: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingridge_dilemmaGPT-3: openai.com/apiFotos of people who don't exist: thispersondoesnotexist.comAbdalla & Abdalla 2021. The Grey Hoodie Project: Big tobacco, big tech, .... Proc of 2021 AAAI/ACM Conf.Crandall ... 2018. Cooperating with machines. Nat Comm.Goffman 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeHarari 2016. Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow.Hawking 2018. Brief answers to the big questions.Kehlmann 2021: Mein Algorithmus und ich.Köbis ... 2021. Bad machines corrupt good morals. Nat Hum Behav.Köbis ... 2021. Fooled twice: People cannot detect deepfakes but think they can. Iscience.Köbis & Mossink, 2021. Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou... . Comp in hum behav.Köbis ... 2022. The promise and perils of using artificial intelligence to fight corruption. Nat Mach Intell.Leib ... 2021. The corruptive force of AI-generated advice. arXiv.Leib ... 2021. Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review. Psych Bull.Mnih ... 2015. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature.Rahwan ... 2019. Machine behaviour. Nature.Silver ... 2016. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature.Tegmark 2017. Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence.
61. Eva Krockow: Social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies BJKS podcast 2022-08-13 | Eva Krockow is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester, where her research focusses on the psychology of antimicrobial resistance. We talk about her educational background, her work on the Centipede Game, social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. Timestamps0:00:04: How Eva ended up studying psychology in Leicester0:07:16: Before her PhD, Eva worked in international relations0:13:06: The Centipede Game/Eva's PhD work0:23:49: What is 'antimicrobial resistance' and why is it a problem?0:41:52: The social dilemma of antimicrobial resistance0:52:05: The benefits of qualitative studies1:04:53: What can we do about antimicrobial resistance?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEva's links • Website: geni.us/krockow-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/krockow-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/krockow-twt • Blog: geni.us/krockow-blogBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/linksThe Centipede Game: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_gameAMR studio podcast: https://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/Colman, ... (2019). Medical prescribing and antibiotic resistance: a game-theoretic analysis of a potentially catastrophic social dilemma. PloS one.Flood (1958). Some experimental games. Management Sci.Hardin (1968). The tragedy of the commons. Science.Harring & Krockow (2021). The social dilemmas of climate change and antibiotic resistance: an analytic comparison and discussion of policy implications. Humanities and Soc Sci Comm.Krockow, ... (2022). Prosociality in the social dilemma of antibiotic prescribing. Cur Op in Psych.Krockow (2020). Nomen est omen: why we need to rename ‘antimicrobial resistance’. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.Krockow, ... (2016). Exploring cooperation and competition in the Centipede game through verbal protocol analysis. Euro J of Soc Psych.Krockow, ... (2016). Cooperation in repeated interactions: A systematic review of Centipede game experiments, 1992–2016. Euro Rev of Soc Psych.Pulford, ... (2016). Social value induction and cooperation in the Centipede game. PloS one.Pulford, ... (2017). Reasons for cooperating in repeated interactions: Social value orientations, fuzzy traces, reciprocity, and activity bias. Decision. Pulford, ... (2021). A five-factor integrative model of strategic reasoning in dyadic games. Eur J of Soc Psych. Rosenthal (1981). Games of perfect information, predatory pricing and the chain-store paradox. J of Econ theo.Tarrant, ... (2021). Drivers of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Overuse across Diverse Hospital Contexts—A Qualitative Study of Prescribers in the UK, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Antibiotics.Tarrant, ... (2020). Moral and contextual dimensions of “inappropriate” antibiotic prescribing in secondary care: a three-country interview study. Front
60. Rickesh Patel: Mantis Shrimp navigation, walking bumblebees, and scientific illustrations BJKS podcast 2022-07-03 | Ricky Patel is a postdoc at Lund University, where he studies the neural basis of navigation behaviours in arthropods. In this conversation, we talk about his work on spatial navigation in Mantis Shrimp and bumblebees, the difficulty of recording from moving insects, science communication, and scientific illustrations.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps00:04: What is a Mantis Shrimp?09:53: How Ricky started studying Mantis Shrimp navigation16:00: Start discussing Ricky's 2020 Current Biology paper on path integration in Mantis Shrimp25:03: A hierarchy of compass cues34:10: Start discussing Ricky's 2020 Proceedings B paper on landmark navigation in Mantis Shrimp38:11: Complex behaviour doesn't require a large brain40:16: Start discussing Ricky's 2022 Current Biology paper about path integration in walking bumblebees46:14: How well can we record neural activity from moving insects?49:54: Twitter in academia53:51: Rickesh's work as a scientific illustrator57:57: There really has been a rich history of studying navigation in non-mammalsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRicky's links • Website: geni.us/patel-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/patel-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/patel-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBeetz, Kraus, Franzke, Dreyer, Strube-Bloss, Rössler, Warrant, Merlin, & El Jundi, B. (2022). Flight-induced compass representation in the monarch butterfly heading network. Current Biology.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.Patel, Kempenaers & Heinze. (2022). Vector navigation in walking bumblebees. Current Biology.Patel & Cronin (2020). Mantis shrimp navigate home using celestial and idiothetic path integration. Current Biology.Patel & Cronin (2020). Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Patel & Cronin (2020). Path integration error and adaptable search behaviors in a mantis shrimp. Journal of Experimental Biology. Santschi (1911). Obervations et remarques critiques sur le mécanisme de l'orientation chez les fourmis. Rév Suisse Zool.Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological review. Wehner (1990). On the brink of introducing sensory ecology: Felix Santschi (1872–1940) — Tabib-en-Neml. Behav Ecol Sociobiol .
59. Chris Frith: Two Heads, social neuroscience, and the history of the FIL BJKS podcast 2022-06-19 | Chris Frith is an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London. His research has spanned several topics, including social cognition, schizophrenia, volition, and consciousness. We talk about Two Heads (a book co-written with his wife and son), his career, and the history of the FIL.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps00:04: Why did Chris not become a musician?06:14: How Chris became a comic book hero14:31: Collaborating with economists (as a neuroscientist or psychologist)22:34: A triple history of Chris's career, neuroimaging, and the FIL at UCL47:14: Career advice: explorers and exploiters in science, and skills to learn57:00: Was all the effort worth it?1:00:10: Sci-fi and detective story recommendationsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtChris's links • Website: geni.us/frith-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/frith-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/frith-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBlakemore ... (1998). Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation. Nature neuroscience.Cook ... (2012). Automatic imitation in a strategic context ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.Corcoran ... (1995). Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference ... Schizophrenia research.Feinberg ... (1999). Schizophrenia–a disorder of the corollary discharge ... The British Journal of Psychiatry.Fletcher ... (1995). Other minds in the brain ... Cognition.Frith ... (2022). Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains.Frith (2013). Making up the mind: How the brain creates our mental world.Frith ... (1991). Willed action and the prefrontal cortex in man: a study with PET. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.Haruno ... (2010). Activity in the amygdala elicited by unfair divisions predicts social value orientation. Nature neuroscience.Haruno ... (2014). Activity in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala ... Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.Helmholtz (1867). Treatise on physiological optics.Johnstone ... (1976). Cerebral ventricular size and cognitive impairment in chronic schizophrenia. The Lancet.Medwed (2007). The innocent prisoner's dilemma: ... Iowa Law Review.Posner ... (1988). Localization of cognitive operations in the human brain. Science.Shelley (1818). Frankenstein.Wegner (2004). Précis of the illusion of conscious will. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.LinksSeiber: youtube.com/watch?v=6pqqfWfwRlQMa mère l'oye: youtube.com/watch?v=JEC_XGjgluoDolly Suite: youtube.com/watch?v=vA-VOOVN2XQChris's interview with the BPS: youtube.com/watch?v=xjku9ASscishttps://interactingminds.au.dk/fil.ion.ucl.ac.uken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dicken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
58. Cameron Brick: climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, and illusory essences BJKS podcast 2022-06-12 | Cameron Brick is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of climate change. In this conversation, we talk about climate change, the psychological aspects behind it, the difficulty of defining pro-environmental behaviour, and his recent article on Illusory Essences in psychological (and neuroscientific) research.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:04: How Cameron started working on the psychology of climate change0:06:24: What is the actual problem of climate change? And what can we do about it?0:21:47: What actually is "pro-environmental behaviour" and how can we measure it?0:32:35: What kind of person is pro-environemtnal, and why?0:38:54: Start discussing Illusory Essences0:45:20: Formal models in psychology0:47:23: Are the Big-5 in personality an illusory essence?1:01:17: How to solve the problem of illusory essencesPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtCameron's links • Website: geni.us/brick-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/brick-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/brick-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBrick, Hood, Ekroll & De-Wit (2022). Illusory essences: A bias holding back theorizing in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.Brick & van der Linden (2018). Yawning at the Apocalypse. ThePsychologist.Brick, Sherman & Kim (2017). “Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”: Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology.Brick & Lewis (2016). Unearthing the “green” personality: Core traits predict environmentally friendly behavior. Environment and Behavior.Smaldino (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them. Computational social psychology.Spence, Poortinga & Pidgeon (2012). The psychological distance of climate change. Risk Analysis: An International Journal.Srivastava (2010). The five-factor model describes the structure of social perceptions. Psychological Inquiry.Updegraff, Brick, Emanuel, Mintzer & Sherman (2015). Message framing for health: moderation by perceived susceptibility and motivational orientation in a diverse sample of Americans. Health Psychology.Wittgenstein (1953). Philosophical investigations.Background on why I laughed at Cameron mentioning Brian Wansick: buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hackingWhere I learnt to floss by doing only 1 tooth per day: Fogg, B. J. (2019). Tiny habits: The small changes that change everything.Borges's short story about maps: genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-science-annotated
57. Peter Vuust: music in the brain, predictive coding, and jazz BJKS podcast 2022-05-28 | Peter Vuust is a Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain in Aarhus, a jazz musician, and composer. In this conversation , we talk about his recent review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, how he got to where he is, active inference in music, jazz improvisation, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps00:05: How Peter became a jazz musician04:54: How Peter became professor of neuroscience08:20: How to combine two different professions practically?11:50: Start discussing 'Music in the brain'24:53: How do prediction errors change with familiarty of a piece of music?38:18: How does moving to the beat (active inference) reduce prediction errors?46:48: The 3 dynamics in musical synchronisation55:10: How does Peter compose for improvisation in jazz?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPeter's links • Website: geni.us/vuust-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/vuust-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/vuust-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksHeggli, Konvalinka, ..., & Vuust (2021). Transient brain networks underlying interpersonal strategies during synchronized action. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.Heggli, Konvalinka, Kringelbach, & Vuust (2019). Musical interaction is influenced by underlying predictive models and musical expertise. Scientific reports.Heggli, Cabral, ..., & Kringelbach. (2019). A Kuramoto model of self-other integration across interpersonal synchronization strategies. PLoS computational biology.Morillon, & Baillet (2017). Motor origin of temporal predictions in auditory attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Rosso, Maes, & Leman (2021). Modality-specific attractor dynamics in dyadic entrainment. Scientific Reports.Vuust, Heggli, Friston, & Kringelbach (2022). Music in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.See the painting with the 'false' line at 7:30 in this talk: youtube.com/watch?v=hOfGX6KSiX8&t=458sStravinsky's Rite of Spring: youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3wThe last part with frequent time signature changes starts at 30:07.A survivor from Warsaw by Schoenberg: youtube.com/watch?v=LBNz76YFmEQ3rd movement of Sinfonia by Berio: youtube.com/watch?v=9YU-V2C4ryUBeatles Documentary by Peter Jackson (Get Back): imdb.com/title/tt9735318Blame it on the Boogie, by The Jacksons: youtube.com/watch?v=nqxVMLVe62U
56. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland: scientific editing, behavioural sciences at Nature, and how to imp... BJKS podcast 2022-05-21 | Mary Elizabeth Sutherland is senior editor at Nature, where she edits submissions in the behavioural sciences and cognitive neuroscience. In this conversation, we talk about how she became an editor, what editors do all day, how to improve your submissions, the future of publishing at Nature, the harp, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:00: Introduction0:05:51: How Mary Elizabeth started playing the harp0:11:19: Harp music recommendations0:13:09: How Mary Elizabeth became senior editor at Nature0:18:11: What do editors do all day?0:31:04: What's the difference between Nature, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports?0:38:53: How representative do samples need to be for Nature?0:44:12: What exactly is a cover letter for?0:50:43: Common errors in submissions0:56:11: Why do the official PDFs of papers have unidentifiable names?0:59:11: Do we still need journals?1:04:07: Will Nature offer Registered Reports?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMary Elizabeth's links • Website: geni.us/sutherland-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/Sutherland-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/Sutherland-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksHarp musicCarlos Salzedo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Salzedoplaying his composition Scintillation: youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8bA1XXQpMLucile Lawrence (her teacher): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Lawrence performing: youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_-Omk_bl0An example of Kora music: youtube.com/watch?v=-cLAwAOi-hAEpisode with Hugo Spiers: geni.us/bjks-spiersEpisode with Michael Hornberger: geni.us/bjks-hornbergerTalk Mary Elizabeth gave that I found on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=5akzsfqwJiwPapers mentionedAiken, E., Bellue, S., Karlan, D. et al. Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid. Nature (2022).Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Ho, T. H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., ... & Wu, H. (2018). Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015. Nature Human Behaviour.Coutrot, A., Manley, E., Goodroe, S. et al. Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability. Nature (2022). Douaud, G., Lee, S., Alfaro-Almagro, F. et al. SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank. Nature (2022).
55. Angelika Stefan: p-hacking, simulations, and Shiny Apps BJKS podcast 2022-05-01 | Angelika Stefan is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam in the Psychological Methods group (lead by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers). In this conversation, we talk about her preprint 'Big little lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies', which she just uploaded to PsyArXiv. We also discuss how she created the Shiny App that allows users to play around with the simulations and run simulations that didn't make it into the paper.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps00:05: How did Angelika start working on her paper 'Big little lies'05:22: P-hacking and human error07:47: Different p-hacking strategies29:34: What are good solutions against p-hacking?40:56: Future directions for this kind of research45:32: How to make a Shiny AppsPodcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAngelika's links • Google Scholar: geni.us/stefan-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/stefan-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and links • Stefan, A., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2022, March 16). Big Little Lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xy2dk • Wicherts, J. M., Veldkamp, C. L. S., Augusteijn, H. E. M., Bakker, M., van Aert, R. C. M., & van Assen, M. A. L. M. (2016). Degrees of freedom in planning, running, analyzing, and reporting psychological studies: A checklist to avoid p-hacking. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01832 • Their Shiny App: https://shiny.psy.lmu.de/felix/ShinyPHack/ • Shiny tutorial videos: shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial • As Predicted preregistration template: aspredicted.org
54. Jessica Kay Flake: Schmeasurement, making stats engaging, and the Psychological Science Accel... BJKS podcast 2022-04-07 | Jessica Flake is Assistant Professor for quantitative psychology and modeling at McGill University, where she studies measurement. In this conversation, we talk about her recent paper 'Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them' (with former guest of the podcast Eiko Fried), how she makes stats lectures interesting, and her work on the Psychological Science Accellarator.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:04: Eiko Fried is maybe not that good at p-hacking0:02:03: How Jessica got into researching measurement0:10:42: The title of 'Measurement Schmeasurement'0:16:15: So what is Schmeasurement?0:24:47: How does Jessica ('literally the best prof ever') make statistics engaging?0:43:02: Is transparency the solution to schmeasurement?0:49:56: Was I measuring or schmeasuring in my recent paper?1:03:39: The next generation of the open science movement1:15:15: What's it like working on large collaborative projects like The Psychological Science Accelerator?Podcast links • Website: geni.us/bjks-pod • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJessica's links • Website: geni.us/flake-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/flake-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/flake-twtBen's links • Website: geni.us/bjks-web • Google Scholar: geni.us/bjks-scholar • Twitter: geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesMy episode with Eiko Fried: geni.us/bjks-friedThe Twitter thread that started schmeasurement: twitter.com/JkayFlake/status/917514276893536257Axelrod (1980). Effective choice in the prisoner's dilemma. Journal of conflict resolution.Flake & Fried (2020). Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.Flake, Pek, & Hehman (2017). Construct validation in social and personality research: Current practice and recommendations. Social Psychological and Personality Science.Flake, Davidson, Wong, & Pek (2022). Construct validity and the validity of replication studies: A systematic review.Kuper-Smith, Doppelhofer, Oganian, Rosenblau, & Korn (2021). Risk perception and optimism during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society open science.Moshontz, ... & Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaborative network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.Nosek, Beck, Campbell, Flake, Hardwicke, Mellor, ... & Vazire (2019). Preregistration is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in cognitive sciences.Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological science.
