CNS Seminar

Despite substantial progress in characterizing the properties of individual neurons and their connections, the mechanisms underlying cortical processing and computations remain largely unknown. Biophysically detailed models of neuronal circuits are becoming a valuable tool towards addressing this challenge since they naturally allow for the integration of anatomy, connectivity and physiology while predicting signals across multiple modalities:spikes, extracellular potentials and calcium imaging. I will present computational and experimental efforts towards the detailed comprehension of signals elicited by brain activity, the understanding we gather from these signals regarding the computations during a behavioral task (systems) and how such processing can give rise to high-level, behavioral readouts (psyche).