• Modeling the Brain with Math

  • Jan 14 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Modeling the Brain with Math

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  • What does your brain have in common with water, earthquakes, and maybe even society itself? Join expert Leandro Fosque and guests Alejandro Gonzales and Peter Thatcher to learn about the theory of criticality, an idea from physics that could help explain how the brain is able to take in so much information, why we need sleep, and what goes wrong when someone has epilepsy or dementia.

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    Intro/Outro music credit: Sam Brunwasser (⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/visualsnowbeats⁠⁠)

    Logo credit: Biographics (Jessica Higginbotham, Tania Lintz, and Yolanda Campos Jurado)
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