BI 245 Dan Levenstein: Neuro-AI, Dynamics, and Model Systems

Daniel Levenstein discusses spontaneous neural activity during sleep and its links to learning, memory and navigation. The conversation explores AI models as tools for understanding hippocampal and cortical dynamics, the relationship between experiments and theory, cognitive maps, world models, spiking networks and transformers. It also addresses the transition from postdoctoral researcher to running a laboratory. The episode was published on 2 September 2026 and runs for 1 hour, 36 minutes and 11 seconds.