Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Simon Giszter (Drexel School of Medicine) discusses spinal cord modularity based on the idea of motor primitives as optimization learning constraints that can be flexibly …

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mark Laubach (Yale School of Medicine) discusses mouse frontal cortex as a model for human frontal cortical function.  He talks about the anterior cingulate cortex as an …

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Barry Connors (Brown University) talks about the historical timeline of research on electrical synapses.  He discusses his experimental  exploration of synchrony in corti…

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Anastassios Tzingounis (University of CT) discusses the mysterious slow after-hyperpolarization current, and talks about a candidate component mechanism he has described that…

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Erich Jarvis (Duke University/HHMI) discusses evolutionary origins of the  vocal motor learning pathway in songbirds, his new work on vocal communication in a new mammalian sp…

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Bharath Chandrasekaran (UT Austin) discusses the corticocentric view of cognitive brain research, and how he has optimized of functional imaging techniques for study of audit…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Gordon  Fishell (NYU School of Medicine) discusses developmental interneuron diversity, the debate between the "lumpers" and "splitters", and the possibility of tracing psychi…

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Johannes Schul (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) discusses the the katydid communication system and its unique strategy for sound segregation of behaviorally rele…

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted an all-star panel of computational neuroscientists for a symposium on "Neural Dynamics & Coding."  This discussion, recorded after the …

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Zen Faulkes (Assoc Professor, University of Texas Pan-American) discusses his work on characterizing nociceptors in crustaceans, and some of the issues surrounding ethical tre…

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Neal Waxham (Professor, Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Medical School at Houston) discusses molecular dynamics at the PSD, including CaMKII as a structural molecule, molec…

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Ulrich Mayr (Professor, University of Oregon) discusses cognitive inhibition during task switching, the common language of processing time between cognitive psychologists …

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Gina Kuperberg (Associate Professor, Tufts University & MGH) discusses her work on semantic processing during schizophrenia. She gives us a window into the use of language …

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Laura Colgin (Asst Professor, UT Austin) talks with us about the early history of the study of brain oscillations, and discusses her work on the potential functional signif…

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Martha Flanders (Professor, University Minnesota) discusses the ongoing debate in motor systems regarding modularity vs distributed organization in the motor planning syste…

Thursday, November 3, 2011

David Perkel (Professor, Washington University School of Med) discusses the homology between the avian song system and the basal ganglia circuit, and the role of motor vari…

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Karen Bales (Assoc Professor, UC Davis) discusses a monogamous primate model that she is using to study neural correlates of social bonding.

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October 25, 2011

The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a distinguished panel of language neurobiologists for a symposium on "The Bilingual Brain."  This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, …

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Stephen Lisberger (Professor, HHMI & UCSF) talks with Charles Wilson about solving the problem of how circuits generate behavior using low dimensional model systems, and wh…

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Kamran Khodakhah (Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talks with the group about information coding in cerebellar cortex and his foray  into translational resea…