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Russ Poldrack reveals the science behind why our brains are habit-building machines and how to make the best out of it. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to make good habits stick 2) How to strengthen your brain against bad habits 3) Why habits never really go away–and what you should do instead Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep778 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT RUSS — Russell A. Poldrack is a psychologist and neuroscientist. He is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He is also the Associate Director of Stanford Data Science, a member of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the SDS Center for Open and Reproducible Science. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 2014, he held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, UCLA, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts and Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick. He lives in San Francisco. • Book: Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick • Twitter: @russpoldrack — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell • Previous episode: 734: How to Train Your Mind to Focus and Handle Distractions Better with Dr. Amishi Jha See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Podcast: Brain Inspired (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: BI 092 Russ Poldrack: Cognitive OntologiesPub date: 2020-12-15 Russ and I discuss cognitive ontologies – the “parts” of the mind and their relations – as an ongoing dilemma of how to map onto each other what we know about brains and what we know about minds. We talk about whether we have the right ontology now, how he uses both top-down and data-driven approaches to analyze and refine current ontologies, and how all this has affected his own thinking about minds. We also discuss some of the current meta-science issues and challenges in neuroscience and AI, and Russ answers guest questions from Kendrick Kay and David Poeppel. Russ's website.Poldrack Lab.Stanford Center For Reproducible Neuroscience.Twitter: @russpoldrack.Book:The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts.The papers we discuss or mention:Atlases of cognition with large-scale human brain mapping.Mapping Mental Function to Brain Structure: How Can Cognitive Neuroimaging Succeed?From Brain Maps to Cognitive Ontologies: Informatics and the Search for Mental Structure.Uncovering the structure of self-regulation through data-driven ontology discoveryTalks:Reproducibility: NeuroHackademy: Russell Poldrack – Reproducibility in fMRI: What is the problem?Cognitive Ontology: Cognitive Ontologies, from Top to BottomA good series of talks about cognitive ontologies: Online Seminar Series: Problem of Cognitive Ontology. Some take-home points: Our folk psychological cognitive ontology hasn’t changed much since early Greek Philosophy, and especially since William James wrote about attention, consciousness, and so on.Using encoding models, we can predict brain responses pretty well based on what task a subject is performing or what “cognitive function” a subject is engaging, at least to a course approximation.Using a data-driven approach has potential to help determine mental structure, but important human decisions must still be made regarding how exactly to divide up the various “parts” of the mind. Time points0:00 – Introduction 5:59 – Meta-science issues 19:00 – Kendrick Kay question 23:00 – State of the field 30:06 – fMRI for understanding minds 35:13 – Computational mind 42:10 – Cognitive ontology 45:17 – Cognitive Atlas 52:05 – David Poeppel question 57:00 – Does ontology matter? 59:18 – Data-driven ontology 1:12:29 – Dynamical systems approach 1:16:25 – György Buzsáki’s inside-out approach 1:22:26 – Ontology for AI 1:27:39 – Deep learning hype The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Middlebrooks, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This is our 13th annual review episode. I share a few highlights from episodes 153-163 and include a few extra reflections on the recent 4-part series about the neuroscience of Consciousness. This month's episode transcript is included for FREE. Partial list of Books/Authors featured in 2019: Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition by John E. Dowling (BS 153) Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging by Alan D. Castel (BS 154) Brain Inspired (podcast) with Paul Middlebrooks (BS 155) The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts by Russell A. Poldrack (BS 156) Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works by Donald G. MacKay (BS 157) Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia Churchland (BS 158) Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell (BS 159) Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene (BS 160) See show notes for BS 160 for additional sources. The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux (BS 161) Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience by Michael S A Graziano (BS 162) The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed by Christof Koch (BS 163) Please Visit Our Sponsors: TextExpander at http://textexpandercom/podcast BetterHelp at http://betterhelp.com/ginger Announcements: Brain Science will be coming out twice a month starting in January 2020! Send email to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com or post voice feedback at http://speakpipe.com/docartemis. To win an Amazon gift certificate: post a review of Brain Science in iTunes and send me a screenshot. Learn about Premium Content at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/donations Learn about Dr. Campbell's new coaching efforts at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/coaching Sign up for the free Brain Science Newsletter to get show notes automatically every month. Check out the free Brain Science Mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows. Connect on Social Media: Twitter: @docartemis Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/brainsciencepodcast Contact Dr. Campbell: Email: brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com Voicemail: http://speakpipe.com/docartemis
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Stanford psychologist, Dr Russell A. Poldrack, author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts. We discuss a brief history of the use of fMRI brain imaging with an emphasis on how to avoid the mistakes that plagued the field early on. Listeners will come away with an appreciation of both the promise and limitations of brain imaging, including an understanding of why it is NOT ready for use as a lie detector. Announcements: Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for complete show notes and episode transcripts. Send email to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com or post voice feedback at http://speakpipe.com/docartemis. To win an Amazon gift certificate: post a review of Brain Science in iTunes and send me a screenshot. Please visit this month's sponsor: TextExpander Connect on Social Media: Twitter: @docartemis Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/brainsciencepodcast
Russ Poldrack is back! For our eleventh episode, we sat down with Dr. Poldrack to discuss his book, The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts. Our conversation addresses a number of the most pressing questions in psychology and neuroscience today. Why can we de-code some cognitive functions in the brain, but not others? How might we use neuroimaging to guide personalized medicine? What can we do to ensure our science is conducted in the most reproducible and rigorous ways? And is it really necessary to study the brain in order to understand human behavior? For a related discussion, check out our previous conversation at: www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/2018/5/27/episode-7-russ-poldrack
For our seventh episode, we interviewed Dr. Russ Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience. Dr. Poldrack is a leading expert in cognitive neuroscience, so we discussed some of the most pressing questions in the field to-date. How good are we at capturing individual differences in patterns of brain activation? Can we infer psychological information about someone from these patterns? What's it like to have yourself scanned over 100 times just for fun (and for the sake of rigorous science)? Dr. Poldrack also gave us a sneak preview of his upcoming book, "The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts." There's so much to learn from this episode -- what are you waiting for?