All Episodes

119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana

118. Lauren Ross: Causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience

117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting

116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia

115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review

114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience

113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak

112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefs

111. Renzo Huber: Layer-fMRI, high-resolution fMRI, and the delicate balance between gourmet chef and janitor

110. Ella Marushchenko: Scientific illustrations, digital vs. classic art, and how to improve scientific figures

109. Roberto Bottini: Cognitive maps, visual impairment, and image spaces

108. Robert Wilson: 10 simple rules for computational modelling, phishing, and reproducibility

107. Nick Wise: Publication fraud, buying authorships, and tortured phrases

106. Eugenie Reich (Part 2): The legalities of scientific fraud, why fraudsters rarely go to prison, and what whistleblowers are allowed to do

105. Eugenie Reich (Part 1): Plastic Fantastic, scientific fraud, and institutional norms

104. James Shine: Integrating neuroscience with fMRI, collaboration, and the importance of dumb questions

103. Brandon Brown: Farms not grants, academic negotiations, and unusual academic contributions

102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics approach to neuroscience

101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals

100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism

99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances

98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins

97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans

96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science

95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD

94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration

93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience

92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique

91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting

90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies

89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience

88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies

87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations

86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins

85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI

84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure in science

83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student

82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking

81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences

80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science

79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mentorship

78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause

77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal development

76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psychology House

75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond traditional disciplines

74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination

73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism

72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI

71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour

70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry

69. Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces, knowledge representation, and semantics

68. Isabel Thielmann: Economic games, personality, and affordances

67. Daniela Schiller: Social spaces, cognitive maps, and clinical applications

66. Rafael Pérez y Pérez: Story Machines, Creative AI, and Mexian serenades

65. Adam Mastroianni: Conversational doorknobs, improv comedy, and a very dumb academic revolution

64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering

63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations

62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes

61. Eva Krockow: Social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies

60. Rickesh Patel: Mantis Shrimp navigation, walking bumblebees, and scientific illustrations

59. Chris Frith: Two Heads, social neuroscience, and the history of the FIL

58. Cameron Brick: climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, and illusory essences

57. Peter Vuust: music in the brain, predictive coding, and jazz

56. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland: scientific editing, behavioural sciences at Nature, and how to improve submissions

55. Angelika Stefan: p-hacking, simulations, and Shiny Apps

54. Jessica Kay Flake: Schmeasurement, making stats engaging, and the Psychological Science Accelerator

53. Chris Chambers: Registered Reports, scheduled peer-review, and science without journals

52. Postdoc fellowship applications (with Toby Wise)

51. Hugo Spiers: Taxi Brains, cognitive maps in humans, and working with humans and non-human animals

50th episode special: reviewing one year of the podcast, lessons learnt, and plans for the future

49. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 7 & 8, & general discussion

48. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 5 & 6

47. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 3 & 4

46. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 1 & 2

45. Michael Hornberger: Sea Hero Quest, developing games for science, and Alzheimer's disease

44. Dan Quintana: Synthetic datasets, science communication, and podcasting

43. Postdoc applications (with Matthias Stangl)

42. Matthias Stangl: grid cells in aging, path integration, and neural representations of actual physical movement in humans

41. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 2: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Stewart), and Prisoner's Dilemma (Yardley)

40. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 1: A Prisoner's Dilemma (Karabache) and Prisoner's Dilemma (Feiklowicz)

39. Nikolai Axmacher: Reduced grid cells in Alzheimer's risk carriers, landmarks in abstract cognitive space, and clinical translation

38. Keno Juechems: Where does value (in RL) come from, optimality with finite computational resources, and learning as a PhD student

37. Jacob Bellmund: Deformed cognitive maps, abstract cognitive spaces, and how many dimensions can grid cells encode?

36. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, part 5 & general discussion

35. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 3 & 4

34. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 1 & 2

33. Bryan Bruns: Applied sociology, 2x2 games, and how to transform tragedy into win-win

32. Book discussion: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

31. Stuart Ritchie: Science Fictions, fraud, and open science

30. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 27-end

29. Anna Riedl: Cognitive science, effective altruism, and science communication

28. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 15-21 & 22-26

27. Nichola Raihani: The evolution of punishment, ultimate & proximate explanations, and cleaner fish

26. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 1-7 & 8-14

25. Désirée Brucks: Inequity aversion in dogs, ecologically realistic experiments, parrots help others obtain food rewards

24. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, epilogue & general discussion

23. Pete Trimmer: Croquet, from maths anxiety to maths degree, and ecological rationality

22. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 5 & 6

21. Giuliana Spadaro: Cooperation Databank, payoff matrices, and meta-analyses

20. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 3 & 4

19. Erik Wengström: Loss aversion when deciding for others, the relationship between economics & psychology, and prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic

18. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 1 & 2

17. Bianca Trovò: Ants-Review, rethinking peer review, and blockchain

16. Brock Bastian: Pain, cooperation, and the benefits of difficulty

15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution

14. Tessa Rusch: COVID-Dynamic, an extremely variable year, and theory of mind

13. Joe Hilgard: Scientific fraud, reporting errors, and effects that are too big to be true

12. Eiko Fried: Being a generalist, theory building in psychology, and useful fictions

11. Jesse Geerts: Finding a good PhD project, reinforcement learning & cognitive maps, and deciding when a paper is ready

10. Hanne Watkins: From academia to behavioural insights in government, Registered Reports, and morality in war

9. Corinna Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart: EDGE, art & neuroscience, and empirical aesthetics

8. Paul Smaldino: Cubist chickens, formal models, and the psychology curriculum

7. Jonathan Berman: Moral choice when harming is unavoidable, simple experiments, and open science

6. Toby Wise: Risk perception about COVID-19, natural experiments, and open science

5. Antonia Wesseloh: Fashion during COVID, Antonia's path as a fashion model, and tips for photographers

4. Cody Kommers: Podcasting as a PhD student, intuitive anthropology, and finding a good problem

3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy

2. Aaron Schurger: The readiness potential, auto-correlated noise, and the weather

1. Matthias Nau: MR-based eye-tracking, cognitive maps & vision, science communication