brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast
Episodes
7 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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...