The Department of Connectomics aims to decipher how the cerebral cortex stores sensory experience and uses it to detect objects in the current environment. To this end, they develop and apply methods for measuring communication maps of neuronal circuits, connectomes. They strive to push the frontiers of connectomics to make the mapping of neuronal circuits a high-throughput technique.
Their main interests are:
Measuring the similarity between neuronal networks in the cortex of different individuals and different species in search for the algorithms of sensory perception.
Searching for engrams of sensory experience in the cerebral cortex.
Understanding the alterations in neuronal network structure in psychiatric disease.
In his talk 'tilte' Moritz Helmstädter will talk about…
