This is a talk by an ex professor of mine, Marty Sereno, which I was reminded of by a recent post on HN about birdsong and language. Marty's a really smart and

This is a talk by an ex professor of mine, Marty Sereno, which I was reminded of by a recent post on HN about birdsong and language. Marty's a really smart and engaging speaker. I remember his PowerPoint-less and notes-less lectures with fondness - he just really knew his stuff back to front, having starting dissecting the visual cortext of monkeys and moved on to fMRI imaging, including writing his own analysis software from scratch.