WaterCooler Neuroscience is continuing our episodes talking about the most interesting papers from the recent NIH confernece which Jordana Adler attended. We are talking about which signals in specific the amygdala is firing at when PTSD patien

Jul 7th, 2022 30m 10s

WaterCooler Neuroscience is back in 2022 with a new format bringing both Wilf Nelson and Jordana Adler. This episode will be bringing you some of the most interesting posters and papers from the NIH conference in America which Jordana attended

Talking with Bethany Teachman

Jul 6th, 2022 29m 44s

This episode finishes the mini-series about Bethany Teachman's lab by interviewing Bethany Teachman herself to talk about her role in running a professional academic lab

Talking with Jeremy Eberle

Jun 22nd, 2022 26m 39s

This episode continues the series from December 2021 by talking with Jeremy Eberle about his experience working in Bethany Teachman's lab.

What does eye movement tell us about how people think?

Jun 19th, 2022 41m 44s

In this episode, Jordana and Wilf talk about what the research into eye movement says about how people are thinking. Why would we want to study eye movement and how does it compare to other methods?

Finishing Wilf Nelson's PhD

Jun 19th, 2022 54m 28s

This episode finalises the series of episodes where Jordana Adler interviews Wilf Nelson on his PhD, the thesis that was produced and the journey he had learned to conduct, design and analyse experiments.

Bringing out the big guns

May 4th, 2022 54m 57s

Episode 4 brings you the first of Wilf's episodes that were designed from conception by himself. His work leads him to try to understand how inhibition works when we have multiple competing senses active but now we are going further. This episo

Things start to go wrong with Wilf's experiments

Apr 7th, 2022 58m 54s

The next episode in the series on Wilf Nelson's PhD thesis is brought to you like season 5 of WaterCooler Neuroscience. In this episode, Wilf talks about this first experiment that just didn't work the way he wanted. Jordana and Wilf talk about

What do we mean when we say the brain inhibits something?

Mar 18th, 2022 1h

In this episode of WaterCooler Neuroscience, we discuss Wilf's first experimental chapter of his thesis. This is when a scientist prepares an experiment and in their dissertation will write a chapter to explain and describe that experiment to o

Apology from our host Dr Wilf Nelson

Mar 8th, 2022 2m 12s

What does it mean to do a PhD?

Jan 25th, 2022 53m 8s

This episode is a special one because it is the first part of a five-episode series of WaterCooler Neuroscience on Wilf Nelson's, the host's, PhD. In this episode, Jordana Adler from BTAB is the host and interviewing Wilf on his PhD from starti

A deep dive into an anxiety lab: part 2

Dec 30th, 2021 26m 57s

Think Fast is continuing its deep dive into Prof. Teachman’s lab to better understand how multiple different research projects are run at the same time and give you a better look at what a proper academic lab is like. In this episode we are tal

Why artificial intelligence doesn't mean a robot or computer

Dec 27th, 2021 30m 51s

Over December Jordana and Wilf have been talking about what science fiction and more specifically last episode SOMA can show about modern psychology and neuroscience. In this episode, we wrap up this mini-series and talk about how an organic AI

A deep dive into an anxiety lab: part 1

Dec 23rd, 2021 28m 5s

Think Fast is doing a deep dive into the lab of Professor Bethany Teachman who has been on the show before and we are talking about how her lab studies anxiety. Normally on Think Fast, we will talk about only one research project or one show bu

Why mind-uploading is terrifying no matter how you talk about it

Dec 20th, 2021 28m 52s

Mind-uploading has been one of the great visions of science ever since the boom of cyberpunk science fiction and with it has been the belief that since 'brains are like computers' (they aren't) that moving our consciousness from our brains to a

Why do we have so many different types of neurons?

Dec 16th, 2021 23m 10s

Today’s episode brings you more from the world of computational neuroscience or trying to recreate parts of the brain in a computer. Brains were once thought of as just as a pile of jelly and neurons were neurons, blood was blood and support ce

Psychologists unapologetically talk about science fiction part 2

Dec 13th, 2021 31m 36s

Our two-part discussion about how psychologists view science fiction continues and this part is where it gets really weird. Wilf and Jordana talk about how to rank different kinds of AI, how well do movie AI match real-world AI and what happens

Psychologists unapologetically talk about science fiction part 1

Dec 6th, 2021 31m 2s

Brains Talking About Brains is a show where two psychologists/neurosciences talk about science papers in our virtual conference. This week however we are expanding into the other great love that all scientists have, that is talking about scienc

Team Flow with Dr Mohammad Shehata

Dec 2nd, 2021 23m 35s

Being in the zone is called a flow state in Psychology/Neuroscience, it is the state of focusing on one task to the point that information from the outside world can not even reach our conscious awareness. Team Flow is the very specific circums

How the brain makes stop signals with Dr Corette Wierenga

Nov 26th, 2021 22m 16s

Inhibition is a fundamental function of the brain, our brain can't always be on. In this episode we talk with our guest, Dr Corette Wierenga, to better understand how our neurons can be activated in a way that starts to promote the growth of in

Tea's effect on the brain

Nov 22nd, 2021 23m 46s

Tea is an almost universal drink across the world with tea trading having shaped huge portions of history. This episode won't be that grand but the hosts are going to break down a recent study that investigated how heavy tea drinkers have their

How do our brains handle emotional music?

Nov 15th, 2021 30m 33s

Music doesn't always have to be emotional, music can just be a boring collection of notes and yet that is very rare. Even the beginning melody of a sound can bring about an enormous range of emotions for people, depending on the context, social

Baby bats babble with Dr Ahana Aurora Fernandez

Nov 11th, 2021 24m 15s

You may not expect the babbling of baby bats to be a topic for a neuroscience podcast but this week we are talking about how social calls in bats go through clear developmental stages without bats ever teaching one another. Bats learn calls, bo

Why do quails prefer their left eye?

Nov 8th, 2021 30m 23s

Everyone knows that humans have two hemispheres and there are famous cases of brains being split and conditions like Alien Hand Syndrome developing which bring forth arguments about if we have two or more personalities in our heads. Birds also

The brain's story tracker with Dr Brendan Cohn Sheehy

Nov 4th, 2021 25m 45s

Our brains tell stories about everything, from how we got to work to how we have spent the last decade of our life. In this episode, we are talking about how our brains and more specifically the hippocampus tracks the way that characters in sto