Meet Scott Kiliansky, Guest of EP 11

My name is Scott Kilianski, and I'm a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine. I study how memories are changed and strengthened while we sleep. I am fascinated by how the brain responds to the outside world, how it changes as we grow, how it makes memories, and what it does while we sleep. Ultimately, I want to understand how our brains take all of the individual experiences we have on a daily basis and extract the countless associations, relationships, rules, and general principles that govern the world around us, which are collectively called "semantic memory". I'm also interested in how we can integrate electronics into our nervous systems to improve all the various functions of the human body including, but not limited to, memory, speed, strength, perception, durability, endurance, and even creativity.

Also included is a short clip of what neurons firing sounds like.