Greg Gage is the co-founder and CEO of Backyard Brains, an organization that develops open-source tools that allow amateurs and students to participate in neural discovery.  Greg is an NIH-award-winning neuroscientist with 9 popular TED Talks and dozens of peer-reviewed publications. Greg is a Senior Fellow at TED and the recipient of the White House Champion of Change from Barack Obama award for his commitment to citizen science.  

Greg Gage  

00:00 intro 

02:28 Graduate Work to Brain Interface Company 20:40 Neuralink, EMG and Cyborgs 

28:57 Electrode Scarring, Heart Stunts and Neural Engineering 

09:40  Neuronal Activation for Behavioral Activations in Monkeys 

38:39 Behaviorism, Experimental Psychology and Implications 

40:41 Recreation of Memories through Artificial Hippocampus 

41:40  Neural Network-based Prosthetics for Limb Amputees 

46:50  AI bot Sofia, Facial Nerves in Robots for Emotive Abilities 

51:44  Big Five, Personality Traits, Neurophysiology & Predicting Divorce 

57:41 Mental Disorders and Wearable Tech  

01:01:04 Surveys, Behavioral Data and Neuroscience 

01:04:00  Neuroscience in Schools and Expansion to Developing World

01:16:00 Work with LEXUS designing Autonomous Car Experience, Children and Science 

01:12:30  Community Work, Silicon Valley and Work Culture 01:20:00 RoboRoach, Flint Michigan and  Joy of Learning