Noam Miller's guest appearances

Noam Miller

Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast

Matthew Murphy

Jeff Martin

Chris Sturdy

Aaron Blaisdell

Brett Gibson

Suzanne MacDonald

Fiona Cross

Caroline Strang

Kristy Biolsi

Emma Tecwyn

Ed Wasserman

Jennifer Vonk

Laurie Bloomfield

Tom Zentall

Neil McMillan

OwlTail

Noam Miller is an assistant professor of psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada where he runs the collective cognition lab.   He's probably modelling something right now  Noam has a B.Sc. in Biology from Tel-Aviv University and – for some reason – also a degree in music (I suspect that reason is because he is a pretty good musician) . He did his PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto, working with Sara Shettleworth on geometry learning and with Robert Gerlai on schooling in zebrafish.   For those of you scoring at home, I did my PhD with Sara and Robbie helped me load the moving truck when I left Sara's lab to move to UWO to do a postdoc.  It is interesting how I can pretty much spin anything into something about me isn't it?  He then did a post-doc with Iain Couzin in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University. He is interested in how being in a group shapes cognition, especially learning, and in zebrafish cognition generally.  Noam and I talked about a lot of different things, including the mathematical model of spatial reorientation that he published along with Sara, his recent theoretical paper about collective learning and a pretty cool empirical one on the same topic.  In all of this work you can definitely see the influence of the Rescorla Wagner model.  Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme. Buy their music now.mp3 download

Noam Miller is an assistant professor of psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada where he runs the <a href="http://collectivecognition.weebly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">collective cognition lab</a>. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IjKM0mMiw_k/Vbdy91IcStI/AAAAAAAAB38/PrtE9S7JJJI/s1600/NoamPic.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> He's probably modelling something right now Noam has a <a href="http://B.Sc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B.Sc</a>. in Biology from Tel-Aviv University and – for some reason – also a degree in music (I suspect that reason is because he is a pretty good musician) . He did his PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto, working with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Shettleworth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sara Shettleworth</a> on geometry learning and with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gerlai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Gerlai</a> on schooling in zebrafish. For those of you scoring at home, I did my PhD with Sara and Robbie helped me load the moving truck when I left Sara's lab to move to UWO to do a postdoc. It is interesting how I can pretty much spin anything into something about me isn't it? He then did a post-doc with Iain Couzin in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University. He is interested in how being in a group shapes cognition, especially learning, and in zebrafish cognition generally. Noam and I talked about a lot of different things, including the mathematical model of spatial reorientation that he published along with Sara, his<a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Kao%20et%20al%202014.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> recent theoretical paper</a> about collective learning and a pretty cool <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Miller%20et%20al%202013%20PNAS.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">empirical one</a> on the same topic. In all of this work you can definitely see the influence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescorla%E2%80%93Wagner_model" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rescorla Wagner model</a>. Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme. Buy their music <a href="https://redarms.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-new-cold-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">now</a>. <a href="http://archive.org/download/spit4/spit4.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mp3 download</a>

Episode 4 - Noam Miller