During sleep, memories about our previous experience are replayed, as was previously shown in the hippocampus, in the neocortex and in the striatum. This replay is probably important for memory consolidation, the process of stabilization of memories that is thought to be orchestrated by the hippocampus. With Adrien Peyrache, Karim Benchenane, Mehdi Khamassi, and Sidney [...]
the INCF software center contains a lot of useful software for neuroscientists.
From the 4th to the 8th of June the Fridtjof Nansen conference on Neural Networks and Behaviour took place on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago (79 degrees North). The conference was organized by Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, and Menno Witter from the Center for the Biology of Memory in the Norwegian [...]
From May, 19th to May 30th 2008, Nicolas Brunel, Massimo Cencini, Alessandro Torcini and I organized a workshop on Workshop on “Network Synchronization, from dynamical systems to Neuroscience” at the Lorentz Center, in Leiden. The aim of the workshop was to bring together scientists working in the field of nonlinear dynamics and neuroscientists with an [...]