brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast

Garret Kurteff and Maansi Desai
  • 5.0 (7)
  • SCIENCE

Welcome to brainWaves, the neurocomm podcast. Hosted by two PhD students and best friends, Garret Kurteff and Maansi Desai, who love to geek out about the brain, language, and music. On this podcast, Garret and Maansi cover various topics under the broader field of auditory neuroscience, with a focus on making science in their field accessible to non-scientists.

Episodes

  1. 09/25/2020

    Episode 7: New Frontiers

    Hello to everybody that has been having a horrible 2020! We at brainWaves are left without a recording studio during the COVID-19 pandemic. But after six months of boredom, we decided it was time to solve the brain again. If we sound worse, it's because we are recording from the safety of our homes! In this episode, we are (remotely) joined by undergraduate academic Rachel Sorrells, who recently published a paper in Frontiers For Young Minds in collaboration with our very own Maansi Desai! There's a twist though...FFYM is written for (and peer-reviewed) by kids! Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Want to be on the cast? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com

    32 min

  2. 02/28/2020

    Episode 6: Meet the Smiths

    On this episode, we welcome Drs. Rosemary Lester-Smith and Spencer Smith to the cast, two professors in UT's Communication Sciences & Disorders department. Dr. Smith is an audiologist by trade and studies speech perception in noise. Dr. Lester-Smith is a speech-language pathologist by trade and studies essential vocal tremor. As dueling clinician-scientists in adjacent fields, they offer unique insight into why it's important for researchers to pay attention to clinical practice and why it's important for clinicians to pay important to research! Oh, also they are both advisors for me and Maansi. Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Want to be on the cast? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com

    51 min

  3. 12/26/2019

    Episode 5: What's Going On Up There?

    Hi friends! Sorry for the delay on this episode — Maansi and I were scrambling at the end of the semester to get stuff done. It’s just us this time, and we are talking about something that is at the core of neuroscientific research — how the heck do we record data from the brain? Turns out there are a bunch of different ways, and each has its own pros and cons. Maansi and I give you the scoop. Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Want to be on the cast? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com

    47 min

  4. 11/18/2019

    Episode 4: The Boy Who Studied His Own Brain

    In this episode, Maansi and Garret interview Dylan Hungate, a young man who is in the few elite who have had the rare opportunity to study their own brain invasively. He is a classically trained pianist who underwent epilepsy surgery and designed an experiment to help preserve his music talent after the surgery. Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Want to be on the cast? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com Music used: * Prelude in C (BWV 846) Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    29 min

  5. 10/26/2019

    Episode 3: Hamilton's Students

    In this episode, Maansi and Garret are joined by none other than Liberty Hamilton! Dr. Hamilton is a computational neuroscientist who studies the neurophysiology of speech and language through an invasive procedure known as electrocorticography (A.K.A., ECoG). Oh, and she's also our boss!

    49 min

  6. 10/09/2019

    Episode 2: The First Wave

    Started from the bottom, now we here. Maansi and Garret tell their life stories to set the stage for the rest of the podcast. Piano sample at 1:35 is Ballade No. 3 in Ab Major, Op. 47 (Frederic Chopin), performed by our very own Maansi Desai. Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com

    40 min

  7. 10/02/2019

    Episode 1: Introduction

    Welcome to brainWaves! In the first episode, Maansi and Garret talk about what y'all can expect from this podcast. Thanks as always to Riohso for our intro and outro music: https://soundcloud.com/riohso Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainwaves_cast Got questions? Send us an email at brainwaves.neurocomm [at] gmail.com

    3 min
  • 7 Episodes

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About

Welcome to brainWaves, the neurocomm podcast. Hosted by two PhD students and best friends, Garret Kurteff and Maansi Desai, who love to geek out about the brain, language, and music. On this podcast, Garret and Maansi cover various topics under the broader field of auditory neuroscience, with a focus on making science in their field accessible to non-scientists.

Information

  • Creator
    Garret Kurteff and Maansi Desai
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast
  • Show Website
    brainWaves: the neurocomm podcast