Yuri Saalmann, Ph.D. Thalamo-cortical processes for cognitive control and conscious states Projections from the cerebral cortex to the thalamus have the key feature of convergence, which forces high-dimensional activity patterns in the cerebral cortex – useful for distinguishing between similar situations and supporting a wide range of behaviors – to be compressed, giving rise to […]
Yonatan Aljadeff, Ph.D. Towards understanding how animals hide (from themselves and others) To produce adaptable behaviors, networks of neurons in multiple brain regions and animal species are thought to form internal models of the world. Internal models correspond to neural representations of predictions and prediction errors of behaviorally meaningful variables, such as incoming sensory stimuli […]
Eyal Seidemann, Ph.D. Toward “reading” and “writing” neural population codes in the primate cortex A central goal of sensory neuroscience is to understand the nature of the neural code in a given sensory cortical area to the point where we could “read” it – i.e., account for a subject’s perceptual capabilities using only the relevant […]
