The Abstract

What if the brain’s famous “error detection” signature—midfrontal theta—wasn’t just one signal, but an entire set of individual rhythms? In this episode of The Abstract , I pull renegade neuroscientist, Dr. Mike X Cohen, back into the world of academia to unpack his 2020 bombshell paper. Using ultra-dense simultaneous MEG+EEG and clever generalized eigendecomposition, his work revealed 3–11 distin...

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Sara Larivière, Assistant Professor at the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology at Université de Sherbrooke. She is at the head of the SLIC (Sherbrooke Laboratory for Integrative Connectomics), holding a Canada Research Chair in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy. Dr. Larivière and I are friends and colleagues, having received our doctorate training at the same l...

I'm Shahin Zagros, cognitive neuroscientist and founder of ZAGROSCIENCE. I take brain research very seriously, which is why I find a lot of what passes for neuroscience online lacking in substance. With my podcast, The Abstract, I bring you the latest and most compelling work in the field by interviewing the women and men who are driving it forward. Don't settle for fluff or sensationalization - g...

In this inaugural episode, I speak with one of the world’s foremost experts in neuroimaging and brain connectomics, Dr Boris Bernhard, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroinformatics. Dr Bernhardt is the Principal Investigator at the Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis (MICA) Lab situated at the McConnell Brain Imaging Cen...