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Paul Verschure on consciousness and distributed adaptive control CSN Podcasts
Edvard Moser on grid cells and entorhinal cortex CSN Podcasts
Giacomo Rizzolatti on mirror neurons and action understanding CSN Podcasts
Robert Axelrod on game theory and prisoner's dilemma CSN Podcasts
Adrian Owen on disorders of consciousness and vegetative state CSN Podcasts
Jonathan Whitlock on markerless motion capture and posterior parietal cortex CSN Podcasts
Luis Puelles on neuroanatomy and prosomeric model CSN Podcasts
Zoltan Molnar on subplate neurons and cortical development CSN Podcasts

120+ conversations by Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott with the scientists shaping our understanding of mind, brain, and intelligent machines

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Edvard Moser

Nobel Laureate, Kavli Institute, NTNU

The Nobel laureate on how the brain builds a map of space. A clean, accessible entry into modern systems neuroscience and a good demonstration of the calibre of guests CSN attracts.

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Giacomo Rizzolatti

Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Parma

A first-hand account of one of the most consequential and contested discoveries in modern neuroscience, told by the scientist who made it.

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Semir Zeki

Professor of Neuroaesthetics, UCL

The neurobiologist who mapped how the cortex divides vision into specialised areas and went on to found neuroaesthetics, the neuroscience of beauty and art.

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John Lisman

Professor of Biology, Brandeis University

His proposal that gamma oscillations nested within theta rhythms give the brain a clock for ordered information has shaped how a generation thinks about neural coding and working memory. Part of the historical record — Lisman passed away in 2017.

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Olaf Sporns

Distinguished Professor, Indiana University

The scientist who coined the term connectome in 2005 and helped found the field of network neuroscience. He explains how the brain is wired together — the structural backbone beneath everything else.

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Murray Shanahan

Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College / DeepMind

How dynamical systems theory — synchronisation, metastability, chimaera states — connects the brain's coordination problem to questions about machine consciousness and AI.

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Robert Axelrod

Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

How cooperation emerges between agents with no reason to trust each other. A bridge between neuroscience and collaboration via game theory.

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Swami Shantamritananda Puri

Spiritual Leader, Mata Amritanandamayi Math

The episode that demonstrates just how far the Collaboration series ranges. A reminder that the question how does collaboration actually work does not only live in laboratories or boardrooms.

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Jonathan Whitlock

Professor of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute, NTNU

A 2025 episode showing where the field is going next: how machine vision and deep learning are quietly rewiring the way behavioural neuroscience gets done.

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