Seminars/Colloquia

Münchner Physik Kolloquium: The Laws of Neurophysics: Insights from the Electric Sense

Name: Münchner Physik Kolloquium: The Laws of Neurophysics: Insights from the Electric Sense
Start: 2011-07-11T17:15:00+02:00
End: 2011-07-11T18:45:00+02:00
Location: Physik Department der TUM, Garching

by Andre Longtin (Physics Department and Center for Neural Dynamics University of Ottawa)

Monday 11 Jul 2011, 17:15 → 18:45 Europe/Berlin

Hörsaal 2 (Physik Department der TUM, Garching)

Hörsaal 2

Physik Department der TUM, Garching

Description

Sensory systems, at the interface of the physical world and our internal "neuronal" world, offer an extraordinary window onto the laws governing neural processes. This talk will discuss how a particular sense of electric knifefish, known as the electric sense, has a level of complexity that enables a deep exploration of the biophysical laws underlying perception and its ensuing neuronal processing.