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A small archive of conversations about dopamine, learning, behavior, and the way scientific explanations change as the evidence improves.
Brain Inspired · Episode 194
With Vijay Namboodiri · Hosted by Paul Middlebrooks
A conversation about the history of dopamine theories—from movement and pleasure to reward prediction errors—and about newer ideas that may help explain how animals infer the causes of important events.
Brain Inspired · Episode 170
Hosted by Paul Middlebrooks
A conversation about moving from engineering into neuroscience, preparing to lead a new research lab, developing a scientific identity, and thinking about behavior in the age of large language models.
Brain Inspired · Episode 112
With Ben Engelhard · Hosted by Paul Middlebrooks
A conversation about reward prediction errors, the many other roles attributed to dopamine, and how neuromodulatory signals operate across different spatial and temporal scales.
UCSF Psychiatry Grand Rounds
A Grand Rounds presentation selected for the 2020 Trainee Research Award series during my time at UCSF.
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