In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” Paul Middlebrooks talks with Nedah Nemati, a postdoctoral philosopher of neuroscience at Columbia University. Nemati embeds herself in working neuroscience labs to study how experimental tools, methods and even researchers’ own life experiences affect the science they produce. As an example, the neuroscience of sleep has drifted so far from its origins, it would be largely foreign to the researchers of a century ago.
To hear more from Nemati, check out her Transmitter essay “Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience.”
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