Episodes

  • #19 How does the world shape our emotions? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. phil. Achim Stephan.

    #19 How does the world shape our emotions? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. phil. Achim Stephan.
    Jul 1 2024
    References: Jacobs, Kerrin, Achim Stephan, Asena Paskaleva & Wendy Wilutzky (2014). Existential and Atmospheric Feelings in Depressive Comportment. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 21(2), 89-110 (erschienen im März 2015). Ratcliffe, M. 2008. Feelings of being. Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scherer, Klaus (2005). What are emotions? Social Science Information, 44, 695–729. Slaby, J. (2016). Mind invasion: Situated affectivity and the corporate life hack. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 266. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg. 2016.00266 Stephan, Achim (2017). Moods in Layers. Philosophia 45, 1481-1495. doi: 10.1007/s11406-017-9841-0 Stephan, A., & Walter, S. (2020). Situated affectivity. In T. Szanto, & H. Landweer (Eds.), The routledge handbook of the phenomenology of emotion (pp. 299–311). Routledge. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • #18 What makes science to be good? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Michael Franke.

    #18 What makes science to be good? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Michael Franke.
    Jun 13 2024
    Correction:“The ‘hard-headed cowboy … with a Stradivarius violin’ is NOT by Popper himself, but used by Peter Godfrey-Smith in his book ‘Theory & Reality’ as a description of Popper’s views.”Credits:Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina OhnesorgeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca Schröder
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    59 mins
  • #17 How can AI decode the brain’s messages to move? Brain-to-brain with Mo Nipshagen.

    #17 How can AI decode the brain’s messages to move? Brain-to-brain with Mo Nipshagen.
    May 30 2024
    In today’s episode we had the pleasure to talk to Mo Nipshagen who is doing their PhD in Nijmegen on brain computer interfaces to restore people’s ability to move. Resources: Berezutskaya, J., Saive, AL., Jerbi, K., Gerven, M.v. (2023). How Does Artificial Intelligence Contribute to iEEG Research?. In: Axmacher, N. (eds) Intracranial EEG. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20910-9_47 Vansteensel, M.J., Pels, E.G., Bleichner, M.G., Branco, M.P., Denison, T.J., Freudenburg, Z.V., Gosselaar, P., Leinders, S., Ottens, T.H., van den Boom, M.A., van Rijen, P.C., Aarnoutse, E.J., & Ramsey, N.F. (2016). Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS. The New England journal of medicine, 375 21, 2060-2066. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1608085 Anumanchipalli, G.K., Chartier, J., & Chang, E.F. (2019). Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature, 568, 4
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    59 mins
  • #16 How does our brain handle distractions? Brain-to-brain with Erik Nickel.

    #16 How does our brain handle distractions? Brain-to-brain with Erik Nickel.
    May 16 2024
    In this episode we talk to Erik Nickel who wrote his masters thesis about attention in visual stimuli and how it’s measured with EEG (electroencephalography).We talk about what attention is, how attention can be measured and a few different theories and explanation attempts. Mentioned papers:– Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate, Steven J. Luck,Nicholas Gaspelin,Charles L. Folk,Roger W. Remington &Jan Theeuwes, https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1848949– Inhibition in selective attention, Dirk van Moorselaar, Heleen A. Slagter, doi: [10.1111/nyas.14304] (https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fnyas.14304 )– Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning, Grace W. Lindsay, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2020.00029 Credits:Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina OhnesorgeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca Schröder
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    57 mins
  • #15 Can computers be creative? Brain-to-brain with Assistant Prof. Philipp Wicke.

    #15 Can computers be creative? Brain-to-brain with Assistant Prof. Philipp Wicke.
    May 2 2024
    References: Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and artificial intelligence.” Artificial intelligence 103.1-2 (1998): 347-356. Ventura, Dan. “Mere generation: Essential barometer or dated concept.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity. Sony CSL, 2016. Gervás, Pablo. “Computational approaches to storytelling and creativity.” AI Magazine 30.3 (2009): 49-49. Veale, Tony. “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4411-8172-5.” (2017): 52-54. Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The embodied mind, revised edition: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT press, 2017. Newen, Albert, Leon De Bruin, and Shaun Gallagher, eds. The Oxford handbook of 4E cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018. Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Elena Clare Cuffari, and Hanne De Jaegher. Linguistic bodies: The continuity between life and
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • #14 What is autism? A multifaceted perspective. Brain-to-brain with Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan.

    #14 What is autism? A multifaceted perspective. Brain-to-brain with Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan.
    Apr 18 2024
    We had the pleasure to talk to Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan about autism. We discuss autistic traits, what neurodiversity and neurotypical means and neuronal differences in autistic people. Muhib tells us more about problems people with autism might face in everyday life, quiet hours in the supermarket and some advantages. Mentioned / Recommended literature: Paper: Pellicano, E., & Burr, D. (2012). When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(10), 504-510. Baron‐Cohen, S. (2017). Editorial Perspective: Neurodiversity–a revolutionary concept for autism and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(6), 744-747. Farmer, G. D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W. J. (2017). People with autism spectrum conditions make more consistent decisions. Psychological science, 28(8), 1067-1076. Hu, Y., Pereira, A. M., Gao, X., Campos, B. M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., … & Dreher, J. C. (2021). Right
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    57 mins
  • #13 How is AI misused for image based violence? Brain-to-brain with Annemarie Witschas.

    #13 How is AI misused for image based violence? Brain-to-brain with Annemarie Witschas.
    Apr 4 2024
    If you are a victim of sexual digital violence and need help here are some rscources: [ENG+] https://stopncii.org/ [ENG/GER] https://www.uni-jena.de/en/university/central-institutions/interessenvertretungen/equal-opportunities-office/information-about-equality/digital-violence-guide [GER] https://annanackt.com/ Scientific resources: https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/ds-202311069973/1/pics-2023-001-witschas-porn-power-and-platforms.pdf Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
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    59 mins
  • #12 Can we create green AI? Brain-to-brain with Cornelius Wolff.

    #12 Can we create green AI? Brain-to-brain with Cornelius Wolff.
    Mar 21 2024
    Sustainable use of Artificial Intelligence – what sounds like a clear conflict, is actually a multifaceted problem. In our newest episode, we speak with Cornelius Wolff. He is a Junior Researcher at the DFKI Osnabrück and works with the Green AI Hub. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
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    48 mins