neuroscience

#1235 Nicole Rust: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That

Apr 2, 2026

Dr. Nicole Rust is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. What in the brain drives answers to the question, “Have you seen this before?” or “How happy are you right now?”. While different in many ways, memory and mood are both forms of learning that happen continuously throughout our lives. To understand how the brain supports these mysterious functions, her lab combines investigations of human behavior, measurements and manipulations of neural activity, and computational modeling. She is the author of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. More»
#1146 Brad Duchaine: Face Perception, Prosopagnosia, and Prosopometamorphopsia

Sep 5, 2025

Dr. Brad Duchaine is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He uses neuropsychology, psychophysics, and neuroimaging to explore the cognitive, neural, developmental, and genetic basis of social perception. Much of his work focuses on prosopagnosia, a condition defined by severe face recognition deficits. More»
#1132 Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Robert Sapolsky, the Genomic Code, and Human Embryo Editing

Aug 4, 2025

Dr. Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in the development of connectivity in the brain, specifically in how this process is controlled by genes and how mutations in such genes affect the connectivity of neuronal circuits, influence behavior and perception and contribute to disease. His latest book is Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. More»
#1126 Nicole Prause: Pornography, NoFap, and Orgasm

Jul 21, 2025

Dr. Nicole Prause is a neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior, addiction, and the physiology of sexual response. She is also the founder of Liberos LLC, an independent research institute. More»
#1119 Anna Ivanova: Language and Large Language Models

Jul 4, 2025

Dr. Anna Ivanova is Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. She is interested in studying the relationship between language and other aspects of human cognition. In her work, she uses tools from cognitive neuroscience (such as fMRI) and artificial intelligence (such as large language models). More»
#1116 Adam Safron: Consciousness, AI, Psychedelics, and The Self

Jun 27, 2025

Dr. Adam Safron is Research Fellow at the Allen Discovery Institute at Tufts University, and is leading an interdisciplinary research program at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies. Most of his work has focused on characterizing the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. He has also studied the effects of brief mindfulness interventions on cognition and well-being. While conducting this research, he developed a neurophenomenological model of sensory absorption and ecstatic states via neural entrainment, which eventually led to developing a synthetic theory of consciousness attempting to integrate across seemingly conflicting perspectives. More»
#1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuchin Monkeys

Jan 16, 2025

Dr. Olivia Reilly is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hecht Lab at Harvard University. Dr. Reilly earned her B.A. in Animal Behavior and Spanish from Bucknell University. She spent two years in the postbaccalaureate IRTA program in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health prior to graduate school. Dr. Reilly completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences at Georgia State University where she studied social cognition in nonhuman primates at the Language Research Center. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Hecht Lab, she uses a comparative approach to investigate the neural and hormonal correlates of social cognition and behavior. More»
#1005 Joshua May - Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science

Oct 11, 2024

Dr. Joshua May is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He works in ethics and cognitive science. His latest book is Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science. More»
#1000 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference: From Physics to Mind

Sep 30, 2024

Dr. Karl Friston is Professor of Imaging Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow of Imaging Neuroscience at University College London. Dr. Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception. He is the author of several books, including Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. More»
#983 Vinod Goel - Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics

Aug 22, 2024

Dr. Vinod Goel is Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University. He is interested in understanding the cognitive, computational, and neural basis of rational decision-making and emotional processing in humans. He is the author of Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics. More»