It was really cool... he's an excellent speaker. Even cooler is that this is part of a new-faculty search we're doing so there's a chance he might come work here if the other faculty liked him as much as I did. (He's currently at the Biocomplexity Institute), a subset of Indiana University)
The only thing that surprised me was how little we know currently about how neurons in the cerebral cortex work. His model is ridiculously oversimplified, but he's making progress and getting some predictions for his theory which match what they're seeing in these rat brains. It's the first step in what seems to be a very interesting research program; I hope it continues on and more resources are dedicated to this line of investigation.
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Let us know how it turns out.
It was really cool... he's an excellent speaker. Even cooler is that this is part of a new-faculty search we're doing so there's a chance he might come work here if the other faculty liked him as much as I did. (He's currently at the Biocomplexity Institute), a subset of Indiana University)
The only thing that surprised me was how little we know currently about how neurons in the cerebral cortex work. His model is ridiculously oversimplified, but he's making progress and getting some predictions for his theory which match what they're seeing in these rat brains. It's the first step in what seems to be a very interesting research program; I hope it continues on and more resources are dedicated to this line of investigation.