BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness

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Alex Maier discusses the neuroscience of consciousness and his research at Vanderbilt University.

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Sign up for Brain Inspired email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episode is released. To explore more neuroscience news and perspectives, visit thetransmitter.org. Alex is an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University where he heads the Maier Lab. His work in neuroscience spans vision, visual perception, and cognition, studying the neurophysiology of cortical columns, and other related topics. Today, he is here to discuss where his focus has shifted over the past few years, the neuroscience of consciousness. I should say shifted back, since that was his original love, which you'll hear about. I've known Alex since my own time at Vanderbilt, where I was a postdoc and he was a new faculty member, and I remember being impressed with him then. I was at a…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Middlebrooks

Guest: Alex Maier

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• consciousness
• visual perception
• cognition
• psychology

Keywords

• neuroscience
• consciousness
• visual perception
• cognition
• psychology
• cortical columns
• Maier Lab

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Organizations: Vanderbilt University, The Transmitter

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