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Prof.
Columbia University
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Schedule
Friday, December 1, 2023
1:30 AM America/New_York
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
NYU Swartz
Duration
70 minutes
Navigation requires orienting oneself relative to landmarks in the environment, evaluating relevant sensory data, remembering goals, and convert all this information into motor commands that direct locomotion. I will present models, highly constrained by connectomic, physiological and behavioral data, for how these functions are accomplished in the fly brain.
Larry Abbott
Prof.
Columbia University
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n the neurosciences the need for some 'overarching' theory is sometimes expressed, but it is not always obvious what is meant by this. One can perhaps agree that in modern science observation and expe