How do you track what an animal's brain is doing when the animal itself is moving through space in complex ways? Neuroscientist Jonathan Whitlock from NTNU Trondheim describes the technical odyssey of building a markerless motion capture pipeline for rats, and explains why simplifying your behavioral paradigm can unlock deeper scientific insights. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Jonathan Whitlock, who studies neural representations of posture and movement in the posterior parietal cortex, joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott at the Convergent Science Network's Alicante Cognition, Brain and Technology Winter School. The conversation explores the practical challenges of tracking animal behavior with enough precision to decode neural signals, and how those challenges led Whitlock toward a radically simpler ex ...