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Buzsáki Lab

A search for a neural syntax

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Buzsáki Lab

A search for a neural syntax

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NewsPeter Petersen ADMIN2021-01-06T10:14:44-05:00

Research Goals

Today’s cognitive neuroscience largely follows the tradition of empiricism by looking for correspondences between ‘stimuli’ in the external world and their responses or ‘representations’ in the brain. This approach works well (sort of) in primary sensory areas but typically fails when cognitive or emotional mechanisms are to be investigated. The empiricist method is a bit like learning words in a foreign language, i.e., collecting correspondences between a known and a new language. The initial progress is fast. One can get by in a foreign country with just 100 words of vocabulary. However, when it comes to truly understanding a language, one needs to know the grammar, the syntactical rules that allow for the generation of virtually infinite combinations from finite numbers of lexical elements. Syntax allows for the segmentation of information into a temporal progression of discrete elements with ordered and hierarchical relationships (e.g. tempo, punctuation, etc), resulting in congruent interpretation of meaning. We endeavor to study the syntax, and not just the vocabulary, of the brain.

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Public access to electrophysiological datasets collected in our lab

Peter Petersen2021-01-06T10:11:33-05:00January 6th, 2021|

The Buzsaki Lab is proud to present a large selection of experimental data available for public access. We publicly share more than a thousand sessions (about 40TB of raw and [...]

CellExplorer: a framework for analyzing single-cells

Peter Petersen2021-01-06T10:09:04-05:00January 6th, 2021|

CellExplorer is a graphical user interface (GUI), standardized pipeline, and data structure for exploring and classifying spike sorted single units acquired using extracellular electrodes. The large diversity of cell [...]

Happy Holidays and COVID-free 2021 to our friends

Peter Petersen2020-12-21T16:04:34-05:00December 21st, 2020|

Here is your 2021 Brain Initiative Calendar (check out September). https://braininitiative.nih.gov/sites/default/files/pdfs/2021_brain_initiative_calendar_508c.pdf

The brain is like a choir singing in an old church

Peter Petersen2020-11-26T22:09:57-05:00November 26th, 2020|

The brain is like a choir singing in an old church Svenska Dagbladet (The Swedish Daily News) published a kind review about The Brain from Inside Out. Below [...]

Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience awarded to György Buzsáki

Peter Petersen ADMIN2020-10-26T15:49:22-04:00October 26th, 2020|

Society for Neuroscience Presents Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest honor, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to György Buzsáki, [...]

Blavatnik Regional Awards Winner: Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

Peter Petersen ADMIN2020-09-27T01:29:52-04:00September 27th, 2020|

Recognized for: Expanding our understanding of how neurons in the brain coordinate their activity to support our ability to form and recall memories. By uncovering the mechanisms of this coordinated activity [...]