Neuroscience News

We speak with cognitive scientist and MBCT director Jay McClelland about his new book and the relationship between the neural networks powering our brains and our AI systems

Join us as we talk with Erin Kunz about building brain-computer interfaces to restore speech to people with paralysis, and recent research testing whether this technology could accidentally read out private thoughts

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Dan Yamins explores how foundation models of the human brain could revolutionize neuroscience.

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams explores how AI chatbots can model the human brain's language abilities.

This week on the podcast, Stanford radiology faculty Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan help us dive deep into the brain with focused ultrasound

This week, we talk with Zhenan Bao about reverse engineering the remarkable properties of human skin to design new wearable devices for neuroscience.

Why do our brains get worse at learning as we get older, and what can we do about it? Institute affiliate Carla Shatz discusses our brain's capacity for change on this podcast episode.

This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances in artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.

Touch is one of the most important human senses. It lets us connect with the world—and each other. Roboticists like Allison Okamura—today’s podcast guest—think we should be building technology that helps us reconnect through the power of touch.

Are bionic eyes in our future? In today's podcast, we talk to Professor EJ Chichilnisky of the Stanford Artificial Retina Project about how electronic implants could reverse blindness in people with retinal disease.