MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH

Our goal is to decipher how the cerebral cortex stores sensory experience and uses it to detect objects in the current environment... To this end, we develop and apply methods for measuring communication maps of neuronal circuits, connectomes. We strive to push the frontiers of connectomics to make the mapping of neuronal circuits a high-throughput technique... Some expectation of apples and cars must be combined with novel input from our sensors (eyes, ears, touch receptors). For all we know, the sensory expectation of apples and cars (and certainly friends' faces) is not already encoded in our genomes, but is imprinted into our brains during our lives. We want to understand how in the cerebral cortex, the main part of vertebrates' brains, such a combination of acquired sensory expectation with sensory novelty is implemented for the detection and classification of objects and events.

Also known as: Max Planck Society

Registration numbers: VR 13378 B (W)

Primary location: Munich Germany