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2017 - current
Modelling sensory map plasticity in barrel cortex
Linda Wouters modelled which structural network changes underly the sensory map reorganisation after whisker deprivation.
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2017 - current
Information processing in barrel cortical neurons
Excitatory and inhibitory neurons in (barrel) cortex process information very differently. The roles of both neuron types in information processing is investigated using a combination of in-vitro experiments and modelling.
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2013 - current
Computational model of a somatosensory cortical column
Chao Huang and me are developing an end-to-end model of the rodent somatosensory system to allow the integration of and cross-validation between structural and functional aspects of sensory phenomena. We keep on updating the model with the latest insights.
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2012 - current
Methods and techniques
A new method for measuring single-neuron information transfer in vitro, and a new method for analysing calcium imaging data, based on regression.
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2015 - 2018
Burst coding
Bursting is a firing mode of neurons in which they respond to and input with a group of high frequency action potentials, followed by a period of relative silence. Many different systems show burst-firing. Why do some systems rely on bursts for their information transmission?
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2012 - current
Matching encoding and decoding with spiking neurons
In this project, a collaboration between Sophie Denève, Boris Gutkin and myself, we show that networks with spiking neurons with heterogeneous encoding and decoding properties can do optimal online stimulus representation.
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2007 - 2013
Inhibition in CA3 of hippocampus
In the CA3 of hippocampus, various forms of inhibition exist, including feedback, feed-forward, dendritic and perisomatic inhibition. We investigated the effects of these different forms of inhibition.