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SUMMARY:Spike timing in motor control - Ilya Nemenman (Emory University)
DTSTART:20171017T100000Z
DTEND:20171017T110000Z
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CONTACT:Prof Máté Lengyel
DESCRIPTION:Last two-three decades have convinced the computational neuros
 cience community that sensory neurons encode information about the world n
 ot just in their firing rate\, but also in the precise timing of their act
 ion potentials. However\, whether this information is used by animals to a
 ctually drive behavior has never been shown. In this talk\, in a time hope
 fully substantially shorter than a few decades\, I will try to convince yo
 u that timing of spikes in multispike patterns\, down to about 1 ms\, is u
 sed by animals in their neural motor codes. I will focus primarily on cont
 rol of vocalization and breathing in the Bengalese finch\, a songbird. Fin
 ally\, I will illustrate our recent attempts to decipher the Enigma of the
 se motor codes.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, CBL\, BE4-38 (http:
 //learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
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