| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/W024020/1 |
| Title: |
Statistical physics of cognition |
| Principal Investigator: |
Schultz, Professor SR |
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| Department: |
Bioengineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 April 2022 |
Ends: |
31 March 2025 |
Value (£): |
2,165,717
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Biophysics |
Non-linear Systems Mathematics |
| Statistics & Appl. Probability |
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This project asks how the statistical mechanics of critical processes such as avalanches underpin mammalian cognition. This is important because self-organising criticality has been proposed as a general explanation of the architecture and operating point of brain circuitry, however until now it has not been possible to relate it to cognitive function itself. We bring an inter-disciplinary approach to bear upon this problem, simulating neuronal mechanisms at scales from sub-cellular to brain-wide, and employing a new mesoscopic neuroimaging technology to detect avalanches and measure distance to criticality in very large (~10,000) populations of neurons during a cognitive task. This will bring new insight into system-wide brain function during health and disease states.
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk |