Plasticity of visual representations in the mouse cortex
by prof. Andrea Benucci, RIKEN Center for Brain Science – Saitama – Japan
When: April 28th, 2022 – 10:00 am
Where: Zoom meeting. Recording available on Mediaspace
Abstract: In this presentation, I will first introduce the main areas of interest of my laboratory at RIKEN Center for Brain Science. Then, I will focus on a recent work where we examined the plasticity of visual representations in the mouse cortex.
The starting observation for this study is that brain circuits acquire and update computations through the dynamics of recurrently connected neurons. Neuronal connections are plastic but the principles that coordinate cell-to-cell connectivity changes for network-level computations remain largely elusive.