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Randy M. Bruno, Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience and the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, US: “The Many Layers of Touch"
02.02.2021 |
| Dato | tir 23 feb |
| Tid | 15:00 — 16:00 |
| Sted | Zoom meeting ID: 66874433778 |
The neocortex mediates all of human and animal cognition—breathtakingly encompassing sensation, perception, decision making, and movement. These diverse functions are achieved by highly stereotyped circuitry that nature appears to have iterated across the entire surface of the brain. Dysfunction of cortical circuits contributes to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. We previously showed that ascending signals from thalamus are copied separately to the superficial and deep layers of sensory cortex. Despite dense connections between layers, these two halves of neocortex appear able to function independently despite their dense interconnections. We are presently investigating the necessity of the primary somatosensory cortex and its constituent layers cell types in various tactile object recognition behaviors, both published and unpublished. I will show how modern optogenetic and older lesion approaches can lead to radically different conclusions about necessity of a brain structure or cell type to a behavior. We have found that sensory cortex is dispensable for learning and performing some of the field’s most widely used behavioral paradigms. This underscores the competency of subcortical systems at basic behavioral tasks and suggests alternative scenarios by which cortex contributes to complex behavior. I will also show how learning alters apical dendrites in cortical layer 1 as new behaviors are acquired.
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https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66874433778
Host: Poul Henning Jensen, Professor and Group Leader at Dept. of Biomedicine, Aarhus University.