Listen "104. James Shine: Integrating neuroscience with fMRI, collaboration, and the importance of dumb questions"
Episode Synopsis
James (Mac) Shine is a PI and fellow at the University of Sydney. We talk about his background in sports, using fMRI to integrate various parts of neuroscience, collaboration, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Mac's sporting background0:07:46: Overview of Mac's review in Nature (w/ Emily Finn and Russell Poldrack)0:14:03: The role of great editors in improving scientists and their work0:32:53: Connecting different levels of description0:40:07: Integration and specialisation0:48:49: You can scan any animal with fMRI - but they're usually anaesthetised0:54:13: The transfer from human fMRI to animal electrophysiology1:01:53: N=1 studies and layer-fMRI in clinical neuroscience1:16:17: Collaboration and building a multidisciplinary lab1:26:52: The magic formula in science: annoyance, excitement, and a constructive mindset1:34:51: Writing grants as a test to oneself, and the art of reframing1:41:52: A book or paper more people should read1:43:37: Something Mac wishes he'd learnt sooner1:45:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMac's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/shine-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/shine-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/shine-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksOHMB interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDj_94ovaUBoyden, ... & Deisseroth (2005). Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, Poldrack & Shine (2023). Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience. Nature.Friston, ... (2017). Active inference: a process theory. Neural Computation.Munn, ... Larkum & Shine (2023). A thalamocortical substrate for integrated information via critical synchronous bursting. PNAS.Newbold, ... & Dosenbach (2020). Plasticity and spontaneous activity pulses in disused human brain circuits. Neuron.Pezzulo & Cisek (2016). Navigating the affordance landscape: feedback control as a process model of behavior and cognition. TiCS.Poldrack, ... (2015). Long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human. Nature Communications.Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nature Neuroscience.Shine, ... (2011). Visual misperceptions and hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: dysfunction of attentional control networks?. Movement Disorders.Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). The dynamics of functional brain networks: integrated network states during cognitive task performance. Neuron.Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). Temporal metastates are associated with differential patterns of time-resolved connectivity, network topology, and attention. PNAS.Shine & Poldrack (2018). Principles of dynamic network reconfiguration across diverse brain states. NeuroImage.
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