Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neuroscientists-talk-shop
episode 61: Episode 61 -- Jonathan Pillow, PhD
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Jonathan Pillow (Assistant Professor, UT Austin) talks about using assumption-free statistics to to extract structure from high dimensional data. The group discusses levels of analysis in computational modeling, and considers the merits of using functional behavior of neurons ("the what") in the absence of mechanism ("the how") as the starting point when modeling complex neural systems.
Duration: 39 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.