I just visited the ESI SyNC 2024 conference on the topic of "Time in the brain". There, I interviewed Hugo Merchant, an electrophysiologist at UNAM in Juriquilla, Mexico. Hugo works with macaques, who can rhythmically tap their fingers synchronized to a visual or auditory beat. By studying macaque neural activity in dimensionality-reduced spaces, he wants to understand how the brain encodes different time intervals. For an overview of our conversation, see the timestamps below.Timestamps:((((((((( Hugo's Website Hugo's publications & talks: Betancourt et al., 2023 - Amodal population clock in the primate medial premotor system for rhythmic tapping paper Pérez et al., 2023 - Rhythmic tapping to a moving beat: motion kinematics overrules motion naturalness - preprint (Bayesian model) ESI SyNC 2024 Talk (should be uploaded within a month here) Other papers/books mentioned: Shine, 2021 - The thalamus integrates the macrosystems of the brain to facilitate complex, adaptive brain network dynamics paper Zemlianova et al., 2024 - A Recurrent Neural Network for Rhythmic Timing preprint (SNN model)For Apple Podcast users, find books/papers links at: https://akseliilmanen.wixsite.com/home/post/pod09 My Twitter @akseli_ilmanen Email: akseli.ilmanen[at]gmail.com Brain Space Time Podcast, my blog, other stuff Music: Space News, License: Z62T4V3QWL