In this re-air episode from summer 2021 (one of our first!), Anjie chats with Judy Fan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Judy’s research is at the intersection of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. In this episode, she discusses a new line of research in her lab exploring how people learn abou ... Show More
May 30
176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little
Adani chats with Elizabeth Bonawitz, Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth’s work focuses on basic theories of learning with the broader goal of informing educational practice. She uses computational, behavioral, and neural methods to s ... Show More
46m 29s
Dec 2024
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson, "The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design" (Duke UP, 2024)
The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design (Duke UP, 2024) guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson introduce “multidimensioning,” a method for pla ... Show More
55m 41s
Nov 2024
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain
<p>As we grow up, there are little windows of time when we can learn very, very fast, and very, very deeply. Scientists call these moments, critical periods. Real, neurological, biological states when our brain can soak up information like a sponge. Then, these windows of learnin ... Show More
36m 11s
Oct 2023
Agents with Theory of Mind Play Hanabi
Nieves Montes, a Ph.D. student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, joins us. Her PhD research revolves around value-based reasoning in relation to norms. She shares her latest study, Combining theory of mind and abductive reasoning in agent‑orie ... Show More
38 m
Aug 2024
044 - Sandra Rose Michael
<div>In this engaging episode of the Think Tank Podcast, Robert dives deep into a conversation with Dr. Sandra Rose Michael, a trailblazer in integrative medicine and biophysics. The discussion explores her revolutionary work in biophotonics and scalar wave technology, which aims ... Show More
1h 45m