Computing in Neocortical Microcircuits

Abstract

The talk will first describe an overview of the structural design of the neocortical microcircuit, how microcircuits are coupled to other microcircuits and the rest of the brain. The computations that are thought to occur at various stages, from when information arrives until it exists, will be discussed and the building blocks for these computations will be described. The talk will end with a discussion of the task-specific vs the generic computation debate as the two competing paradigms for computations in the microcircuit.

About Henry Markram

Dir. Henry Markram
Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne/Schweiz

Henry Markram received his Phd in Neuroscience 1991 at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. From 1998 to 2001 he has been the Stanley and Hellen Diller Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel.
Since 2002 he is Professor at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is the founder and director of the Brain Mind Institute.