Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh - Australian National University, ACT: "Deciphering the language of brain cells: what can we learn from neuronal representations?"
Speaker:
Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh
Eccles Institute of Neuroscience
Australian National University, ACT
Title: Deciphering the language of brain cells: what can we learn from neuronal representations?
An important challenge to neuroscience is to understand how the brain generates a reliable representation of the world around us. I will present neuronal recordings in a number of sensory decision paradigms implemented in humans, rats and mice. I will present quantitative methods of decoding neuronal representations. I will demonstrate how characterising these neuronal representations in correct versus incorrect choices, and their modulation by attention can reveal the mechanisms that underlie sensory decision-making.
Bio-sketch: Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh is a group leader at the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience. He holds a Medical Degree (Tehran University of Medical Sciences; 2001) and a PhD in Neuroscience (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy; 2005). His research group, the Neural Coding Lab, study sensory processing at the level of single cells and cortical circuits.
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