Research Interests

How do small populations of neurons dynamically produce interesting, useful and adaptive patterns of spiking activity? Through gene expression, nature reuses structural patterns which it finds to be adaptive; what important connecitvity motifs and sets of structural parameter values are reused in the brain? In short, how does structural pattern give rise to activity/behavioral pattern?

I am studying these questions through the lens of computational mechanics, building and analyzing minimally sufficient statistical models of spiking activity emergent from dynamics of underlying small populations of model neurons.