Reading and Writing the Neural Code

Stanley, Garrett B.

Title:

Reading and Writing the Neural Code

dc.contributor.author	Stanley, Garrett B.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-27T21:43:54Z
dc.date.available	2011-01-27T21:43:54Z
dc.date.issued	2011-01-18
dc.description	Presented on January 18, 2011 from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. at the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience (IBB), room 1128, Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 64:06 minutes
dc.description.abstract	The external world is represented in the brain as spatiotemporal patterns of electrical activity. Sensory signals, such as light, sound, and touch, are transduced at the periphery and subsequently transformed by various stages of neural circuitry, resulting in increasingly abstract representations through the sensory pathways of the brain. It is these representations that ultimately give rise to sensory perception. Deciphering the messages conveyed in the representations is often referred to as "reading the neural code." True understanding of the neural code requires knowledge of not only the representation of the external world at one particular stage of the neural pathway, but ultimately how sensory information is communicated from the periphery to successive downstream brain structures. Our laboratory has focused on various challenges posed by this problem, some of which I will discuss. In contrast, prosthetic devices designed to augment or replace sensory function rely on the principle of artificially activating neural circuits to induce a desired perception, which we might refer to as "writing the neural code." This requires not only significant challenges in biomaterials and interfaces, but also in knowing precisely what to tell the brain to do. Our laboratory has begun some preliminary work in this direction that I will discuss. Taken together, an understanding of these complexities and others is critical for understanding how information about the outside world is acquired and communicated to downstream brain structures, in relating spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity to sensory perception, and for the development of engineered devices for replacing or augmenting sensory function lost to trauma or disease.	en_US
dc.format.extent	64:06 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36744
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Petit Institute Breakfast Club Seminar Series
dc.subject	Biomedical engineering	en_US
dc.subject	Neuroscience	en_US
dc.title	Reading and Writing the Neural Code	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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local.contributor.author	Stanley, Garrett B.
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