CogNation
Discussions on the future of brain science and technology.
We found 10 episodes of CogNation with the tag “brain”.
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Episode 8: Artificial Life
March 22nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 54 mins 32 secs
artificial life, brain, christopher langton, cognition, evolution, life, mind
Can we create life artificially? What would that even mean? Rolf and Joe talk about the field of Artificial Life, or "A-Life", which has worked toward the goal from a number of academic disciplines for the past thirty or so years. They think about different approaches, such as software, hardware, and biological artificial life, and consider what it might take to convince us that we have created something that would be considered life.
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Episode 7: Heroism and Heroic Actions: Stephanie Preston
March 13th, 2019 | Season 1 | 56 mins 2 secs
behavior, brain, cognition, evolution, evolutionary psychology, hero, heroism, michigan, preston, psychology
What makes a hero? Guest Stephanie Preston, director of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, takes an evolutionary look at what might underlie extraordinary acts, done at great personal risk, to help or save the life of others.
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Episode 5: Reading the Mind with EEG: Adrian Nestor
February 22nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
bci, brain, cognition, eeg, fmri, mind, perception
Dr. Adrian Nestor of the University of Toronto talks with us about the state of the art in using EEG to read our percepts and thoughts
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The Frey Effect, Continued: Dr. Beatrice Golomb
February 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 40 secs
brain, cuba, embassy, frey effect, neuroscience, perception, sound
Rolf interviews Dr. Beatrice Golomb as an addendum to our previous show about the Frey Effect
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The Frey Effect (or, When Microwaves Attack)
February 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 10 mins
brain, cuba, embassy, frey effect, neuroscience, perception, sound
Discussion of the Frey Effect, an interesting phenomenon where sound is perceived from microwave radiation, and has been suggested as the cause of mysterious afflictions at the American embassy in Cuba.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces, part A
February 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 51 mins 20 secs
bci, brain, computer, neuroscience, technology
A discussion of the current state of the art of brain-computer interfaces
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Brain-Computer Interfaces, part B
February 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 50 mins 45 secs
bci, brain, computer, neuroscience, technology
Second part on brain-computer interfaces