Speaker: Dr. Nitin Gupta
Stopfer Lab
NIH, Bethesda
Veneue: Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Science Complex
Time: 10:00am-11:00am
Date: 13th February 2014
The remarkable capabilities organized by the brain—from seeing to singing, from remembering to running—originate in the electrical activities of neurons. Neurons interact with each other forming circuits, which process sensory information and drive appropriate behaviors. I am interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms used by neural circuits for processing information. The insect olfactory system (sense of smell) provides an ideal testbed because of its simple organization, rich behavior, and amenability to in vivo experiments. I will describe our recent work using this system and the tools of electrophysiology, imaging, and computational simulations for studying circuit properties, such as inhibition and oscillatory synchronization. I will also describe new experiments testing whether the precise timing of neural activity, at the scale of tens of milliseconds, carries useable information in the responses of relatively quiet neurons
-- Stopfer Lab
NIH, Bethesda
Veneue: Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Science Complex
Time: 10:00am-11:00am
Date: 13th February 2014
Title: Revealing neural mechanisms of information processing using a simple brain
AbstractThe remarkable capabilities organized by the brain—from seeing to singing, from remembering to running—originate in the electrical activities of neurons. Neurons interact with each other forming circuits, which process sensory information and drive appropriate behaviors. I am interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms used by neural circuits for processing information. The insect olfactory system (sense of smell) provides an ideal testbed because of its simple organization, rich behavior, and amenability to in vivo experiments. I will describe our recent work using this system and the tools of electrophysiology, imaging, and computational simulations for studying circuit properties, such as inhibition and oscillatory synchronization. I will also describe new experiments testing whether the precise timing of neural activity, at the scale of tens of milliseconds, carries useable information in the responses of relatively quiet neurons
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