Near London? Like thinking and talking about video games? You should check out VideoBrains. It’s a monthly meet of games journalists, developers, academics and other enthusiasts which takes place in an esports bar near-ish Kings Cross.

Each event features panels and talks by smart people, who so far have had only interesting and thoughtful things to say. If it sounds like your thing, you should really check it out.

Also, previous talks are posted on their Youtube channel, so you can get a flavour of what it’s like. But if you do watch them, consider throwing the organiser a dollar or so; he puts a hell of a lot of effort into making it as good as it is.

Writing this report was one requirement of the travel grant which let me attend this conference. Having written and hyperlinked it up, I thought I’d post it in case it would be of interest to anyone. At least check out the videos!

2016 was the second time that I visited the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, this time to present the poster 3682: Investigating human speech recognition: Reverse-engineering the machine solution with EMEG and RSA, co-authored by my colleagues at the Departments of Psychology and Engineering at Cambridge. The visit was generously supported by a Brain travel grant, for which I give my thanks.

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