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Deciphering the brain’s prediction machine

How does the brain act as a prediction machine and how does it process unexpected events? Researchers at SWC have been studying sensory prediction errors using two-photon calcium imaging and optogenetics to take us a step closer to understanding both the nature of prediction error signals as well as the mechanisms by which they arise.

2 August 2023
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6 reasons why your brain needs sleep

As we look ahead to a new sleep lab opening at SWC in January 2024, we asked leading neuroscientists their thoughts on why we sleep. Here are six key reasons they shared.

27 September 2023
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Peeking inside the black box with recurrent neural networks

How do we extract essential features from the activity of billions of neurons in the brain? In a SWC Seminar, Dr. Kanaka Rajan shared her work using recurrent neural networks constrained directly by experimental recordings, a special class of artificial neural network models, to figure out how real brains learn.

26 September 2023
Blog

Engaging with teachers to nurture the next generation of neuroscientists

How do I know if my students are already using ChatGPT? Can we differentiate between AI and student responses? Could AI be a useful teaching tool in science? These were some of the most common questions teachers submitted ahead of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre’s very first event for teachers.

7 September 2023
Three brain hats

Why join SWC for your PhD?

Receive world-class training in systems neuroscience through our fully-funded 4-year PhD programme. Join our supportive and collaborative environment with close links to the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Watch the video as our current SWC PhD students share their experience.

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Oct
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SWC Hybrid Seminar: Motor cortex circuits for learned movements
By:
Dr Takaki Komiyama
UCSD
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13
Oct
09:50
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18:00
Ground Floor Lecture Theatre
Annual Student Symposium: Keeping Track
By:
SWC/GCNU Student Symposium Team
PhD students
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30
Nov
12:15
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13:15
Group Floor Lecture Theatre
SWC Hybrid Seminar: Insights and Strategies during Sensorimotor Learning
By:
Dr Kishore Kuchibhotla
Johns Hopkins University
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