123 - Jacqueline Gottlieb: Are You Curious About Curiosity?
This week, Julia chats with Jacqueline Gottlieb, Professor of Neuroscience in the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Institute for Mind, Brain, and Behavior at Columbia Un...
7 Dec 20231h
122 - Michal Kosinski: Studying Theory of Mind and Reasoning in LLMs.
Xi Jia chats with Dr. Michal Kosinski, an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Michal's research interests recently encompass both human...
30 Nov 20231h 8min
121 - Joshua Hartshorne: Does a Similar Native Tongue Speed Up English Learning for Kids?
Anjie chats with Dr. Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College where he directs the Language Learning Laboratory. He studies language learning from a variety of aspects...
9 Nov 202344min
120 - Steve Fleming and Nadine Dijkstra: Distinguishing Imagination from Reality
This week, Julia chats with two guests from University College London, Professor Steve Fleming and Dr. Nadine Dijkstra. Professor Fleming is the Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at t...
26 Okt 202338min
119 - Bryan Brown: Virtual Reality for Science Education
Anjie chats with Dr. Bryan Brown. Bryan is a professor of teacher education at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research interest explores the relationship between student ...
19 Okt 202341min
118 - Josh Jackson: Morality, Culture, and Social Media
Eric chats with Joshua Jackson, newly minted Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In his research, Josh studies how culture co-evolves with ps...
12 Okt 202350min
117 - Sho Tsuji: A blueprint for modeling how babies acquire language
Anjie chats with Dr. Sho Tsuji, an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo where she directs the IRCN baby lab. Her core research interests involve understanding how babies acquire language eff...
5 Okt 202329min
116 - George Mashour: How Psychedelics Can Shed Light on Consciousness
This week, Julia chats with George Mashour, the Robert B. Sweet Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. Professor Mashour was the founding director of th...
28 Sep 202339min
