(Former employee or visitor)
Under the supervision of Dr. Mark van Rossum (Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation) and Dr. Ian Duguid (Centre for Integrative Physiology), I studied the link between behaviour and the neural activity in the motor cortex. In particular, I investigated how changes in brain state affect the correlation structure and input integration in different cortical layers. I combined cutting edge experimental techniques with analytical and computational modelling. In particular:
- I recorded intracellularly from pyramidal neurons in the motor cortex of awake mice, that were head restrained and free to walk on a treadmill;
- I analysed the experimental data, finding common patterns in the noisy signals;
- I used Bayesian inference tools to infer the structure of the inputs to a neuron, by observing its membrane potential;
- I performed spiking networks simulations to reproduce and justify my experimental findings.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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