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Cortical maps for space (GRIDCODE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to understand the neural basis of subjective experience and behaviour. With our discovery of grid cells as the brain´s metric for space in 2005, spatial navigation became one of the first non-sensory ‘cognitive’ functions of the brain to be accessible for mechanistic analysis. Grid cells are cells with spatially localized firing fields that tile environments wi ...
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Function of Chemosensory Circuits (CHEMOSENSORYCIRCUITS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Smell and taste are the least studied of all senses. Very little is known about chemosensory information processing beyond the level of receptor neurons. Every morning we enjoy our coffee thanks to our brains ability to combine and process multiple sensory modalities. Meanwhile, we can still review a document on our desk by adjusting the weights of numerous sensory inputs that constantly bombard o ...
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Deconstructing action planning and action observation in parietal circuits in rats (RAT MIRROR CELL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) mediates cognitive motor functions including motor planning and action understanding. The latter process is thought to occur via ‘mirror’ neurons, which fire both when an animal performs an action and when it observes a cohort performing the same action. The extraordinary tuning properties of PPC cells require the convergence of sensory and motor inputs from sev ...
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Neural mechanisms for memory retrieval (ENSEMBLE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Memory is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in biology. The mammalian brain stores billions of bits of information but the most remarkable property of memory is perhaps not its capacity but the speed at which the correct information can be retrieved from a pool of thousands or millions of competing alternatives. Despite more than hundred years of systematic study of the phenomenon, scientist ...
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