Speaker
Janos Vörös
(ETH Zurich)
Description
The traditional way of addressing questions related to the function of the brain is by studying the nervous system of various organism. Due to the complexity of these systems, it is very difficult to address fundamental questions. This leads to a lack of consensus even on seemingly basic questions such as “what is information” and “how is information stored and processed” in the brain. A new, bottom-up approach will be presented that uses small networks of neurons with the advantage that the position and connections of the neurons can be precisely defined and the cells have a good accessibility for recording tools.
Author
Janos Vörös
(ETH Zurich)
