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When we sleep, our brain is filled with spontaneous neural activity. What is it doing?

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding the brain.

By Paul Middlebrooks

2 September 2026 | 96 min watch

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In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks talks with Daniel Levenstein, assistant professor in Yale’s Department of Neuroscience and a Wu Tsai investigator at the Wu Tsai Institute’s Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence. Levenstein studies how spontaneous brain activity during sleep helps us learn, remember and navigate the world.

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