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A quantum leap: from a spike-centered brrain universe to its underlying synaptic landscape (BRAINLEAP). (BRAINLEAP)
Project BRAINLEAP develops a breakthrough, revolutionary technological approach to explore cognition and plasticity in
cortical neuronal networks, and preliminary applies it in vitro and in awake behaving rodents and primates. BRAINLEAP
will enable simultaneous, long-term, and independent recording and stimulation of the electrical activity from hundreds of
individual mammalian neurons, with a quality that in practice matches the intracellular configuration. By allowing one to
record (and stimulate) for very long times, synaptic- and action-potentials from individual neurons, in the context of specific
sensorimotor integration tasks, the leap we propose might ultimately shift current paradigms and theories, from spike-centred
computation to its underlying subthreshold synaptic potentials computation.
Date:1 Feb 2013 → 31 Jul 2016
Keywords:BRAIN RESEARCH, NEURO-ENGINEERING, CORTICAL NEUROBIOLOGY, MICROTECHNOLOGY
Disciplines:Neurosciences, Biological and physiological psychology, Cognitive science and intelligent systems, Developmental psychology and ageing
Project type:Collaboration project