Détails de la réservation
- Le : 3 February 2017
- De : 11 h 00
- à : 13 h 00
- Salle : Salle de conférence
Détails de l'évènement
Conférence mensuelle Bordeaux Neurocampus & NBA Speaker
Paul CHADDERTON
"Cerebellar computation during active sensing"
Résumé
The cerebellum or ‘little brain’ is a major site of sensorimotor integration and contains more than half of all the neurons in the mammalian brain. The elegant repeating circuitry of the cerebellar cortex has led to its description as ‘a neuronal machine’, but we know surprising little about its function. In particular our understanding of how the circuit encodes associated sensory and motor information during behaviour remains limited. We have approached this problem by using a well-defined model, the mouse vibrissae system, to study how sensorimotor signals are represented by the activity of individual neurons within the cerebellar cortex. In this talk I will describe how whisking behaviour is encoded by neurons in both input and output layers of the cerebellar cortex. Our results reveal that cells in the cerebellum use a simple code to represent whisker position during voluntary movement and provide a powerful new platform to explore neural computations underlying sensorimotor behavior.
Responsable
- Nom : Julia Goncalves