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- Brain Inspired
- Publisher |
- Paul Middlebrooks
- Media Type |
- audio
- Podknife tags |
- Artificial Intelligence,
- Data Science,
- Interview,
- Machine Learning,
- Neuroscience,
- Philosophy,
- Psychology,
- Science & Medicine,
- Technology
- Publication Date |
- Aug 02, 2018
- Episode Duration |
- 01:11:23
We talk about how he got the embodied cultured networks to actually work, the hurdles they had to jump through, the rise of citizen science, the Maker movement, and more. Click the episode for the show notes
We talk about how he got the embodied cultured networks to actually work, the hurdles they had to jump through, the rise of citizen science, the Maker movement, and more. Click the episode for the show notes
Find out more about Steve at his website.
Things mentioned during the show:
- Papers we talked about:
- Publishing negative results!
- Wagenaar, D. A., Pine, J., & Potter, S. M. (2006). Searching for plasticity in dissociated cortical cultures on multi-electrode arrays. Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 5:16. Reprintcorrections2006.pdf">Download
- Solving the bursting neurons problem:
- Wagenaar, D. A. Madhavan, R. Pine, J. and Potter, S. M. (2005) Controlling bursting in cortical cultures with closed-loop multi-electrode stimulation. J. Neuroscience 25: 680-68 Download
- Training the cultured networks:
- Chao, Z. C., Bakkum, D. J., & Potter, S. M. (2008). Shaping Embodied Neural Networks for Adaptive Goal-directed Behavior. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(3): e1000042. Online Open-Access paper, supplement, and movie.
- Bakkum, D. J., Chao, Z. C. (Co-First Authors), & Potter, S. M. (2008). Spatio-temporal electrical stimuli shape behavior of an embodied cortical network in a goal-directed learning task. Journal of Neural Engineering, 5, 310-323. Download reprint (3MB PDF)
- The richness of the bursting activity, and how to get good signals from neurons in dishes:
- Wagenaar, D. A., Pine, J. and Potter, S. M. (2006). An extremely rich repertoire of bursting patterns during the development of cortical cultures. BMC Neuroscience 7:11.Reprint (2.79 MB PDF).
- You can find tons (over 40GB) of data from that paper here.
- Publishing negative results!
- Non-synaptic plasticity (what?!)
- Bakkum, D. J., Chao, Z. C., & Potter, S. M. (2008). Long-term activity-dependent plasticity of action potential propagation delay and amplitude in cortical networks. PLoS One, 3(5), e2088. Online Open-Access paper.
- DIY neuroscience: Backyard brains
- Citizen neuroscience:
- Elizabeth Rickers‘ citizen science efforts at Neuroeducate
- Sapiens Labs
- Steve’s lab provides open-source electrophysiology rig plans, called NeuroRighter.
- Follow Steve’s Instrucable projects.
- Go make Steve’s window light!
- Or watch a time-lapse of him building an awesome work-bench
- Here’s are detailed posters of his SunRisa sun-like alarm clock.
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