On the computational neuroscience legacy of Valentino Braitenberg - with Ad Aertsen - #43
The prominent and colorful neuroscientist Valentino Braitenberg was born 100 years ago. He co-founded the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen in Germany, where he made seminal c...
25 Juli 1h 10min
On neuronal identity and representational drift - with Timothy O'Leary - #42
A bursting neuron can maintain its firing-pattern identity throughout an animal's life, even though the ion-channel proteins underlying this identity are turned over on the timescale of days. Today'...
20 Juni 1h 43min
On functional effects of neuronal heterogeneity - with David Dahmen - #41
Most neural network models till date have assumed all neurons to be identical, or at least that all neurons within a population are identical. In reality, no two neurons are completely the same. Is th...
23 Maj 1h 29min
On smelling your way to the fruit with ring models - with Katherine Nagel - #40
Fruit flies need a short-term (working) memory to keep their direction when they navigate their way to the fruit by smelling. Mean-field ring models was theoretically suggested to encode stimulus orie...
25 Apr 1h 25min
On modeling neural population activity with mean-field models - with Tilo Schwalger - #39
Starting with the work of pioneers like Wilson and Cowan in the 1970s, mean‑field models have become a dominant tool for modeling neural activity at the level of neuronal populations. Despite their p...
28 Mars 2h 18min
On reproducibility of modeling and 10 years with the Potjans-Diesmann network model - with Hans Ekkehard Plesser - #37
Reproducibility is key for scientific progress. If research results cannot be reproduced and trusted, other researchers cannot build on them. Reproducibility is a challenge also in computational neuro...
31 Jan 1h 28min
On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex - with Sara Solla - #36
Historically, the analysis of neural recordings focused on responses of single neurons recorded by single-contact electrodes. Modern electrodes with multiple electrode contacts can instead record spik...
3 Jan 2h 4min
