Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Director, Department of Neural Systems and Coding

Title: 
“Neural Motion”
Description: 
Supported by the Amy C. Kern and John M. Goldsmith ‘85 Fund for Neuroscience
Date/Time: 
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 12:30pm
Location: 
A32 PNI Lecture Hall
Hosted by: 
Mala Murthy
Department: 
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Category: 
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Summary: 
This talk will focus on experimental evidence for neural systems dynamics, using as illustrations three examples taken from different systems and animal species: a sensory system (olfactory circuits in insects), a motor system (the camouflage system of cuttlefish) and cortical networks (in the three-layered cerebral cortex of reptiles). One of the goals of this juxtaposition is to identify potentially general functional or computational principles of neuronal systems dynamics.