Dr. Grace Lindsay
Interview with Dr. Grace Lindsay on February 28th, 2020
Stories of Women in Neuroscience · Catie Profaci
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Show Notes
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Grace, who creates data-inspired neural networks to model and study the visual cortex.
Dr. Grace Lindsay was hooked on neuroscience before she even knew its name. In her high school psychology class, she was fascinated by topics of human behavior and the inner workings of the mind, but the class left her with more questions than answers. Grace realized that the focal point of her curiosity was not the thoughts or behavior per se, but rather the biological mechanisms underlying those thoughts and behavior. She googled “biopsychology”, wondering if that was even a field of study. Grace eventually came to realize that her piqued interest did indeed have its own name: neuroscience. This intellectual passion morphed into a serious career plan when she found out that most science doctoral programs pay their students. Thrilled at the idea of studying the brain as a job, Grace left high school hoping to eventually pursue a PhD in neuroscience. She went on to do exactly that.