Yuji Ikegaya
Associate professor,Grad School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,The University of Tokyo
Because the neurons are the functional
units of a neural network, large-scale recordings from
them are indispensable for our understanding of the brain
function.
In this study, I use a new calcium
imaging technique to monitor activities of hundreds of
neurons with high spatial resolution and reconstruct huge
spike trains of a neuronal microcircuit.
In the cortex and hippocampus,
I examine how neural signals are modulated or stored while
being conveyed through multisynaptic pathways and how they
are converted to an appropriate output, and thereby, I
elucidate the operational fashion and computational function
of a cortical microcircuit.
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