Cultivating Early Laboratory Learning at UCLA
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Communicating Science: An Interview with Scientist and Author Dr. Dean Buonomano
We are told today that science and technology are progressing at an unprecedented rate, that researchers continue to shovel coal into the runaway train of scientific advancement, not seeing the…
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How Can a Neuroscientist Work in Policy?
For the first time in U.S. history, the science advisor to the president has been elevated to a cabinet-level position. While this move was perhaps precipitated by the scientific nature…
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Songbirds and Vocal Learning: Interview with Dr Stephanie White
Knowing Neurons interviews Dr. Stephanie White, Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA, about her work studying vocal learning in songbirds as well as her role as the Assistant…
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Sex Differences in the Neural Control of Thermogenesis: An Interview with Dr. Stephanie Correa
Understanding the complexity of the human mind and body is a feat that some would say is impossible. While the scientific community forges on despite the immense expanse of the…
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Neuroscience Education in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Megan Peters about Neuromatch Academy
In March 2020, my research stopped. The cognitive neuroscience lab where I work was shuttered because our research involves collecting behavioral and neuroimaging data from human participants – something impermissible…
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So that’s what the claustrum does!
Three years ago, I asked “What the heck is a claustrum?” In that piece, I described the mystery of this oddly shaped brain region, located just below the cerebral cortex.…
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Frames of Consciousness: An Interview with Martin Monti and Adrian Owen
Each night when you dream, your mind is active, yet your body is largely unresponsive unless woken up. A similar situation exists for some brain-injured patients who have lost consciousness—although…
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[Podcast] Uploading the Human Brain
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a brand new episode of the Knowing Neurons podcast, we explore the concept of “mind uploading”. How would something like a mind upload really work?…
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Self Reflected: The Best of Neuroscience and Art
The phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” seems especially true for scientists. What we study becomes not only intellectually beautiful, but also literally beautiful: the form is…
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Spinning Logic
I had the opportunity to speak with Jason Havey, host of the Spinning Logic podcast! And it was a blast!!…
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Knowing Neurons Visits the Large Hadron Collider: Interview with Dr. André David
On January 26, I had the honor of visiting the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the largest and most complex scientific research facilities in the world. What was…
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Science Careers: An Interview with Dr. Rachel Bernstein
The pursuit of science is challenging. It is where new knowledge is born. In their path towards the unknown, scientists, too, face their fair share of insecurity. When experiments fail,…
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A Grand Vision: A Conversation with Lynne Kiorpes
When babies are born, they cannot see very well, but their vision vastly improves as they continue to develop. Sometimes, the eyes don’t communicate well with the brain, and vision…
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Is Seeing Believing? A Conversation with Tom Albright
What does eye-witness identification have to do with neuroscience? A lot, actually.…
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Mental Health is a Part of Health: A Conversation with Shekhar Saxena
In a recent presidential town hall, President Obama looked directly into the camera and made a powerful statement about mental health. “If something inside you feels like it’s wounded, it’s…
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Does Free Will Exist?
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. Professor Freeman is enjoying the Southern California weather on Professor Domino’s patio.
Domino: Will it be Coke or Pepsi, Dr. Freeman?
Freeman: That’s an easy…
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An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes
Ten minutes before I was scheduled to begin my interview with celebrated writer Steve Silberman, I still had not figured out which questions I wanted to ask him. Staring down…
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Is the Brain Smarter than a Computer?
Knowing Neurons is proud to present our inaugural entry in a new series of YouTube videos! In this episode, Joel asks, “Is the brain smarter than a computer?” With Joel as…
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Explain Things To Me: Neuroscientist Kate Fehlhaber
Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Anna Akana and Brad Gage for their podcast called “Explain Things To Me,” a show that features conversations with experts in various fields,…
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Science with a Touch of Art: A Conversation with David Ginty
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If you think about it, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. The dozens…
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Science Fiction, Serendipity and Interneuron Specification: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon J. Fishell
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It is easy to assume that if a car has a gas pedal, it needs to have brakes, and similarly, if our brain…
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Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska
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When we see the world, there is a huge amount of processing that occurs in the neural circuits of the retina, thalamus, and…
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From Stevens to Synapses: A Conversation with Kelsey Martin
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Take your wildest guess. How many neurons make up the human brain? You’re not guessing wild enough if you said anything less than…
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