Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Friday, April 9, 2010

Jeremy Dasen (NYU School of Medicine)

Pasko Rakic (Yale School of  Medicine)

Gary Gaufo (UTSA), Raj Awatramani (Northwestern)

Goichi  Miyoshi (Fishell Lab, NYU School of Medicin…

Thursday, March 11, 2010

David  Poeppel (Professor, NYU) discusses the fundamental mismatch in the  "conceptual inventory" of psycholinguists and neuroscientists in the  study of language representat…

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Mike  Smotherman (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M) discusses speech motor  control in bats and humans, and how approaches to mammalian vocalization  have been approached in…

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Nicholas  Priebe (Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin) discusses  subthreshold inhibition in primary visual cortices, both as a tuning  mechanism along sensory …

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Janet  Best (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) discusses her take as  a math biologist on the interplay between applied math and biology.  She and Kelly Suter (UT…

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Suzana  Herculano-Houzel (Professor, Universidad Federal de Rio) discusses  cortical scaling rules across phylogeny, the theory of human cortical  expansion in mammalian ev…

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Asif  Ghazanfar (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) discusses the  relationship between the brain, the body and environmental context, and  how he is using the rela…

Monday, November 30, 2009

Katalin  Gothard (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) expands on the  role of amygdala in fear conditioning, emphasizing that the ecology of a  species and the subtl…

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Daniel  Lodge (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, UT Health Sciences Center  San Antonio) discusses mouse models of schizophrenia and how mesolimbic  dopamine modulation…

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Nancy  Wexler (Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University  College of Physicians & Surgeons, President Hereditary Disease  Foundation) and historian Alice …

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ila  Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT  Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles  of sparseness, capacity and opt…

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Bernd  Fritzsch (Professor & Chair, University of Iowa) provides an  historical perspective on developmental genetics, and the changing  concept of lineage from a genetic p…

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Garret  Stuber (Associate Scientist/Bonci Lab, Gallo Institute UCSF) discusses  how he is adapting optogenetic tools to study reward learning.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discussa…

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Dennis  McFadden (Ashbel Smith Professor, UT Austin) discusses otoacoustic  emissions, their purpose, and how he is using them as a possible measure  of early sexual differe…

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Brenton  Cooper (Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University) discusses  peripheral constraints (i.e., sensory feedback and motor control) on  song development.

Durat…

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Melissa  Saenz, (Post-doc, Christof Koch Lab, CalTech) discusses cross modal  brain plasticity with respect to cortical specialization, and her  discovery of the new phen…

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Tianyi  Mao, (Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences  University; currently Svoboda Lab, Janelia Farm) talk about  characterizing cell types and ne…

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Massimo  Tabaton, (Professor of Neurology, University of Genova) gives a  critical appraisal of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discuss…

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Christof  Koch, (Lois & Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive &  Behavioral Biology, Caltech) talks about the neural correlates of  consciousness in a discussion hosted by Fidel…

Wednesday, April 21, 2009

Jim Surmeier (Northwestern University), Jochen Roeper (Goethe University,  Frankfurt), Bruce Bean (Harvard Medical School), Carlos Paladini  (UTSA), and John Williams (Orego…