BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

by Paul Middlebrooks | Dec 17, 2025

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BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain

by Paul Middlebrooks | Dec 3, 2025

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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain

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Tatiana Engel on learning how low-dimensional function is embedded in high-dimensional networks, and timescales across the brain.

BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans

by Paul Middlebrooks | Nov 19, 2025

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BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans

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BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited

by Paul Middlebrooks | Nov 5, 2025

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BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger's What is Life? Revisited

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Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life is a famous book that people point to as having predicted DNA and influenced and inspired many well-known biologists ushering in the molecular biology revolution. But Schrödinger was a physicist, not a biologist, and he spent very little time and effort toward understanding biology.

BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience

by Paul Middlebrooks | Oct 22, 2025

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BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience

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Raja discusses his philosophical and scientific work assessing how concepts from ecological psychology might elucidate the brain’s role in perception and action, within the context of our inextricable embodiment and interaction with the environment. They also discuss Raja’s term “motif” to describe how a single term can enable scientific progress even when researchers use different definitions for the same words, and the ongoing research studying the nature of plant behavior.