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Can brain understand brain?

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Miha

The classic philosophical dilema of Neuroscience found its way to XKCD

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Stem Cells and Neuroscience

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Miha

As the initiative of my significant other, we attended the public event called – “Stem Cell Treatments, where are we? – A focus on Neurological Disease”. The title is quite descriptive. The aim was to present the stem cell research … Continue reading →

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Michael Hausser – Dendritic computation

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Miha

I am especially excited about this one. The work of Michael Häusser and his lab is quite influential in my PhD. Let’s see how this goes … It turned out I wasn’t quite able to blog as he talked. One … Continue reading →

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CogScience Wars: Probabilistic vs. Connectionist Models of Cognition

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Miha

The above is a title of a discussion at the interdisciplinary ‘Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group’. We have Matteo Colombo and Matthew Chalk discussing two recent papers on two theoretical approaches to cognitive modelling: Griffiths, Thomas L. et al. … Continue reading →

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Daniel Dennett – “My brain made me do it”: When Neuroscientists think they can do Philosophy

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Miha

I was lucky enough to get a chance to listen to Daniel Dennett, one of those philosophers who have their own Wiki page. He is interested in cognitive science, free will, very much pro-evolution and atheism. According to this wiki … Continue reading →

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5th CNRS-MPG joint workshop on Systems Biology

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Miha

December 09 – 10, 2010 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Henri Poincaré – Homepage I am attending a short (2-day) workshop in Paris. I decided to use this opportunity to start what I was planning for quite some … Continue reading →

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Coding strategies in the brain

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Miha

What coding strategy brain uses? Are the timings of spikes important (temporal coding), or simply the number of spikes in a given time window is sufficient information carrier (rate coding)? For sure the former is faster and more efficient and … Continue reading →

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Are dendrites doing complex computations or are they just integrating the input?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Miha

Initially I was told and thought that the computations in the brain are done by the networks of neurons. Reading the O’Reilly and Munakata book Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience this is achieved by imagining neurons as points (nodes) connected to … Continue reading →

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It starts!

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Miha

Welcome to Progress log. This is a place where I put out ideas that I work on during my research (currently a PhD). Feel free to look around and comment. Oh yes, not everything is public.

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