Category Archives: Questions

The bigger or smaller questions that are bothering me.

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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Data analysis of the DGU data from Freiburg

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Miha

I got 2 sets of measurements from Philipp. Each set includes the individual PSPs (also PSCs) along with the traces of the PSP when the neuron neighborhood is stimulated with Dynamic Glutamate Uncaging (DGU) setup. With this I can look, … Continue reading →

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Reproducing Destexhe findings

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Miha

This is the log for the reproduction of Destexhe results.

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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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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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Non-linear effects in input summation

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Miha

This is an idea for the study using Dynamic Photo Stimulation [1]. For a general background and some visual stimuli, you can browse trough the presentation below first. More detailed text follows. Hypothesis: We can find non-linear (sub or supra-linear) … 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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