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Benoit Cottereau / Timothée Masquelier

Toulouse, France
Apply by Sep 26, 2025

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Sep 26, 2025

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Benoit Cottereau / Timothée Masquelier

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Toulouse, France

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Application Deadline

Sep 26, 2025

Start Date

Flexible

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Benoit Cottereau / Timothée Masquelier

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Toulouse, France

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Job Description

In primates, neuronal processing of visual information occurs within two main pathways. The ventral pathway (or ‘what’ pathway) underlies cognitive functions such as faces or object recognition whereas the dorsal pathway (or ‘where’ pathway) allows visually guided actions such as navigation or manipulation of objects. In recent years, numerous studies in computational neurosciences used deep neural networks to model neuronal processing within the ventral pathway. Much less is known about treatments carried out along the dorsal pathway. This multidisciplinary project at the interface between AI, computational neurosciences and biological vision aims at modelling motion and depth processing along the dorsal pathway of the primate visual system. In order to reproduce the very low energy consumption of the primate brain, the developed models will be based on spiking-neural networks (SNNs) and will process data collected from event-based cameras. We will be particularly interested in the processing of higher-level forms of motion (optic flow, motion-in-depth, biological motion). The responses of the neural networks after (supervised or unsupervised) training will be compared to biological data from the literature (for example with electrophysiological data recorded in non-human primates, see for example Duffy and Wurtz, 1991) or acquired in the CerCo laboratory.

Requirements

  • The candidates should be willing to work in an international environment which involves Singapore and France
  • have a very good level in English (French is not mandatory)
  • excellent mathematical and programming skills (in particular in Python) and a keen interest in the brain. Experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. PyTorch) is desirable.