Obiettivo Despite impressive advances in almost every field of neuroscience, our insights into brain function remain largely confined to its building blocks at the microscopic level, and to phenomenological descriptions at the macroscopic level. Understanding how complex mental functions originate from electrical and chemical processes in brain cells requires a comprehensive and integrated multi-level analysis focused on neuronal assemblies and microcircuits, where myriads of intricately connected neurons with different properties act together. We shall use the coordinator’s recent discovery of entorhinal grid cells – a key cell type in the network for spatial representation and navigation – as a model for neuronal computation in non-sensory cortical microcircuits. The crystal-like structure of the firing fields of grid cells provides an entirely new route to access the neuronal interactions responsible for pattern formation in the brain. Using a forceful combination of computational modelling and novel electrophysiological, optical and molecular research tools never applied for circuit analyses in the brain before, we shall establish the mechanisms by which microcircuits in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex encode, maintain and update representations of location as animals move from one place to another. Insights into the underlying computations have considerable translation potential. Understanding the algorithms for spatial navigation may change the way we manage a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, which commonly begins in the entorhinal cortex and has topographical disorientation as one of its most reliable symptoms, and it may provide European industry with radically innovative concepts for the design of artificial navigating agents. Campo scientifico natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologysocial sciencespsychologycognitive psychologymental processesmedical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementiaalzheimer Parole chiave Alzheimer's disease brain cell assemblies coding cortex hippocampus memory microcircuits navigation place cells spatial Programma(i) FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health Argomento(i) HEALTH-2007-2.2.1-2 - Coding in neuronal assemblies Invito a presentare proposte FP7-HEALTH-2007-A Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinatore NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU Contributo UE € 954 750,00 Indirizzo HOGSKOLERINGEN 1 7491 Trondheim Norvegia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Edvard Moser (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (6) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto AXONA LIMITED Regno Unito Contributo UE € 272 250,00 Indirizzo Green Lane 148 AL36EU ST. 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