| Lottem Eran |
| Email |
lotteme bgu.ac.il |
| Gender |
Male |
| Nationality |
Israel |
| Year of birth |
1979 |
| Department |
Physiology |
| University |
Ben Gurion university of the Negev |
| Country (of work) |
Israel |
| Simulation Project Title |
Coding of Naturalistic Stimuli in the somatosensory system. |
| Type of model |
Systems model |
| Description |
It is accepted that the representation of information in the cortex is carried out by the
joint activity of neural ensembles. My study will explore neural correlation, and their
influence on information coding. By looking at simultaneously-recorded neurons in a rat's
somatosensory barrel cortex, I will use (a) information theoretic analysis, to observe the
effects of correlated activity on naturalistic stimuli coding; and (b) simulated neurons to
reconstruct stimuli from neurons' spike trains. |
| Why complementary |
This project will involve the use of sophisticated statistical and modeling methods the
better to interpret data collected in the course of my PhD research, hopefully to arrive at
insights concerning the coding strategies used by sensory neurons at different stages of
information processing in response to naturalistic stimuli. |
| Tutor |
Arvind Kumar |