brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast
Welcome to brainWaves, the neurocomm podcast. Hosted by two PhD students and best friends, Garret Kurteff and Maansi Desai, who love to geek out about the brain, language, and music. On this podcast, Garret and Maansi cover various topics under the broader field of auditory neuroscience, with a focus on making science in their field accessible to non-scientists.
Podcasting since 2019 • 7 episodes
brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 7: New Frontiers
Hello to everybody that has been having a horrible 2020! We at brainWaves are left without a recording studio during the COVID-19 pandemic. But after six months of boredom, we decided it was time to solve the brain again. If we sound worse, it'...
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Episode 6: Meet the Smiths
On this episode, we welcome Drs. Rosemary Lester-Smith and Spencer Smith to the cast, two professors in UT's Communication Sciences & Disorders department. Dr. Smith is an audiologist by trade and studies speech perception in noise. Dr. Les...
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Episode 6
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Episode 5: What's Going On Up There?
Hi friends! Sorry for the delay on this episode — Maansi and I were scrambling at the end of the semester to get stuff done.It’s just us this time, and we are talking about something that is at the core of neuroscientific research — how...
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Episode 5
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Episode 4: The Boy Who Studied His Own Brain
In this episode, Maansi and Garret interview Dylan Hungate, a young man who is in the few elite who have had the rare opportunity to study their own brain invasively. He is a classically trained pianist who underwent epilepsy surgery and design...
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Episode 4
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Episode 3: Hamilton's Students
In this episode, Maansi and Garret are joined by none other than Liberty Hamilton! Dr. Hamilton is a computational neuroscientist who studies the neurophysiology of speech and language through an invasive procedure known as electrocorticography...
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Episode 3
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