The Funding
This page contains audio segments under the theme of 'funding.' This theme references discussions about similarities or differences in funding in the neurosciences versus funding in the humanities.
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The Funding
Audio Segments with Description
Jack Gallant
1. Dr. Jack Gallant relates the importance of finding a balance between benefits to engineers and neuroscientists when seeking funding and spending funding to solve a problem together.
Marco Iacoboni
1. Dr. Marco Iacobani finds that funding is one of the biggest barriers to bringing people from different disciplines together. He explains that a majority of funding agencies tend to fund traditional work within the disciplines rather than research across different fields.
Gregory Hickok
1. Dr. Gregory Hickok expresses his concern for finding enough funding to pursue experiments, suggesting ultimately that a collaboration interesting enough would motivate him to move forward in search of funds anyway.
Larry Cahill
1. Dr. Larry Cahill talks about the big role of funding in neuroscience and the constraints of funding an experiment in his lab. He gives an example of using an EEG instead of an fMRI to reduce costs, allowing him to experiment more freely in his research.