Courses

Biological physics seminar series

Biophysics of cortical information processing
The human brain is extraordinary complex. It consists of 100 billions of neurons, each connected to about ten thousand other neurons. Each neuron is a complex and beautifully shaped biochemical machine that produces all-or-none electric signals, spikes, that can travel over long distances to other neurons. The key question is how this cacophony of neural activity leads to day to day behavior. One of the goals of the Tiesinga lab is to understand how the brain processes sensory information. The lab approaches this problem with theoretical and computational methods but relies also on ongoing collaborations with experimental groups. A powerpoint presentation with more information about the current projects in the Tiesinga lab can be found here.