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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

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Developing Neuropixels 2.0 to stably track neurons over months

Described in a new paper published in Science, the new Neuropixels 2.0 probes build upon the success of the original Neuropixels probes to improve stability, among other features, so that recordings of the same neurons can be performed over longer time periods in small animals.

15 April 2021
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Decision-making using uncertain sensory evidence and temporal expectation

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre explored decision-making in mice using a novel behavioural framework and widefield calcium imaging across dorsal cortex to elucidate how sensory evidence gets transformed across multiple brain areas simultaneously.

15 April 2021
Widefield calcium responses across dorsal cortex in mice
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Learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex

How does the brain learn about odours and how often are these memories overwritten? In this Q&A, Dr Carl Schoonover and Dr Andrew Fink, who recently gave the final lecture in our 2020 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series, outline their research on learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex.

30 March 2021
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Brainrender: visualising brain data in 3D

Federico Claudi, PhD student in the Branco Lab, and team at SWC, have developed an open-source Python package called brainrender, which enables interactive 3D visualisation of anatomical data and allows neuroscientists to gain a more intuitive understanding of brain structures.

24 March 2021
Brain visualisation using brainrender

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 Virtual Seminar: Neural mechanisms of a latent decision in the basal ganglia
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Dr Paton, PhD
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon - Portugal
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SWC Virtual Seminar: Collective Behaviour and Collective Intelligence
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Professor Jens Krause
Humboldt University Berlin
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