Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Julijana Gjorgjieva

Time: 4:00pm Location: 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium (Third floor of MIT Building 46) Talk Title: How neural circuits acquire structure and use it flexibly Abstract: Neural circuits acquire structured connectivity during development and learning, yet must use this organization flexibly as sensory inputs, context and behavioral demands change. Understanding how these properties emerge is challenging because multiple plasticity mechanisms, cell types and synaptic dynamics interact across spatial and temporal scales. I combine theoretical analysis and mechanistic modeling with quantitative analys