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Neurons and Cognitive Processes

[RG #111] Neurons and Cognitive Processes

October 7, 2007 - February 28, 2008

Organizers:

Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Israel Nelken (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

This multidisciplinary program marks twenty years since a similar event took place at the IAS in 1987/88. The program twenty years ago brought together a number of leading scholars in physics and biology and, combined with two international workshops, constitute the formative events in the development of Computational Neuroscience. These events led to the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation at The Hebrew University, serving as a model for similar centers at leading institutions throughout the world. There are not many programs that have played as signficant a role in the emergence of an academic discipline as the IAS program and workshops held in 1987/88.

This group will assess, in a detailed manner, the achievements of computational neuroscience over the past 20 years, and to map future territories of application and interaction with experimentalists.

 

2007-2008 Research Groups

Members

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Grygory Buzsaki

FELLOW
Rutgers University
Grygory is a professor in the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University. His research interests are: neural basis of learning and memory; and brain rhythms in the service of information coding, transfer and storage.
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Hanoch Gutfreund

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel is a professor in the Racah Institute of Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are solid state physics, disordered systems, statistical mechanics, theory of neural networks, and complexity science.
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Daniel Lee

FELLOW
University of Pennsylvania
Daniel is a professor in the Department of Electrical and System Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are computational neuroscience models.
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Israel Nelken

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and the Institute of Life Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are the auditory system, complex and natural sounds, and novelty detection.
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Sara Solla

FELLOW
Northwestern University
Sara is a professor in the Department of Physiology at Northwestern University. Her research interests are theoretical and computational neuroscience.
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Naftali Tishby

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naftali is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Interdisciplinary Center for Neutral Computation, and the Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Alessandro Treves

FELLOW
SISSA
Alessandro is a professor in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). His research interests are theoretical neuroscience.
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Jonathan D. Victor

FELLOW
Weill Cornell Medical College
Jonathan is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research interests are neural coding, visual cortex, large-scale brain dynamics, and information theory.
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Istvan Winkler

FELLOW
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Istvan is a professor in the Institute for Psychology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are auditory perception and memory, and modelling sound organization in the human brain.