Răzvan Florian has shown how neurons can learn to process and memorize information that is entirely temporally coded, both as input and as output, in the precise timings of spikes.
read moreThe institute will organize in June 2012 this summer school, which will concentrate top-level international expertise to teach a dozen students techniques and concepts in experimental systems neuroscience. Lectures and lab sessions will focus on modern optical and electrophysiological methods to study the connectivity and function of neuronal circuits.
read moreRIST awarded the following young scientists for the best PhD thesis project of the year in computational game theory: Noémi Gaskó, Tudor Dan Mihoc, and Scott Duke Kominers.
read moreRIST’s Marius F. Danca has found that if the control parameter p, of a continuous-time nonlinear system belonging to a large class of systems, is switched within a set of chosen values in a deterministic or even random manner, while the underlying model is numerically integrated, the obtained attractor is a numerical approximation of one of the existing attractors of the considered system.
read moreRIST co-organizes this conference which welcomes scientists and researchers over the vast field of complexity to exchange ideas in Cluj-Napoca, on October 19-20, 2011.
read moreThe USA foundation awarded a grant to the group led by prof. Dumitru Dumitrescu for a project entitled “Towards a conceptual integration of artificial intelligence, game theory and decision theory”.
read moreOur scientists have found that the internal timescale of the brain, i.e., the time window needed by neurons to encode a given aspect of the visual stimulus, is tightly correlated to the external timescale of the visual stimulus, i.e., the speed with which the visual image on the retina changes.
read moreThe partnership between the institute’s Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies (Coneural) and the prestigious Max Plank Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, has been extended for another 2 years (2011-2013), after an evaluation of the work performed in the previous 3 years. Peter Gruss, the President of the Max Planck Society (Germany), stated in the renewal letter: “It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to inform you of the very successful outcome of the mid-term review of your Partner Group. The review report points out the impressive scientific output of the Partner Group during the first three years since its inception. I congratulate you upon this success”.
read moreThe institute’s scientists have developed a special visualization technique for how multiple neurons fire spikes together to encode information, by representing the identity of firing patterns of multiple neurons with color sequences.
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