Neurology Past and Present #131

September 23, 2011

This episode was recorded when Science for the People was called Skeptically Speaking.

We’re taking a break from live recording this week. We’ll listen in on an interview recorded live at Dragon*Con 2011. We’ll discuss the history and practice of neurology, with academic clinical neurologist Dr. Steven Novella, and Dr. Jason Schneiderman, post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory at Harvard Medical. And we’re joined by researcher Dr. Thomas Naselaris, of Berkeley’s Gallant Lab, to discuss their new study using computer modeling to reconstruct visual images from the brain.

Guests:

  • Steven Novella
  • Jason Schneiderman
  • Thomas Naselaris
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