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Working memory depends on reciprocal interactions across the brain

In a new study, published in Nature, neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL investigated the reciprocal interactions between two brain regions that represent visual working memory in mice. The team found that communication between these two loci of working memory, parietal cortex and premotor cortex, was co-dependent on instantaneous timescales.

27 July 2022
Voitov Mrsic-Flogel 2022 Nature
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Cognition in the noise

How can we uncover the way we learn and know things? Recent SWC seminar speaker, Professor André Fenton, has spent his career focusing on the deviations from expectations, the noise that can’t be explained. In this Q&A, he shares how this approach has led him to a new paradigm for thinking about cognition.

10 August 2022
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Understanding the dynamic complexity of sleep and visual texture perception

In a recent SWC Seminar, Prof Gilles Laurent shared his work on the neural dynamics in sleep and visual texture perception, using the Australian dragon and cuttlefish respectively as model organisms. In this Q&A, he elaborates on the routes that his lab took to researching these topics, the specific advantages of using these animals as model organisms, future plans, and more.

8 August 2022
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Exploring the function of dopamine in reward-driven action

What happens in our brain when we seek what we crave, like an ice-cold glass of water on a hot summer’s day? In a recent SWC Seminar, Dr Mark Walton shared his work connecting striatal dopamine with reward-driven action. In this Q&A, he delves deeper into the historical backdrop of his research, the controversies around striatal dopamine’s role in signalling new information, and the implications of his findings.

4 August 2022
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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

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SWC Seminar: Memories and Mental Simulation
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Professor Loren Frank
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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SWC Seminar: The association cortex spatial transformation network
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Dr Andrew Alexander
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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