Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, March 20, 2014 Massimo Scanziani (HHMI UCSD) discusses how cortical circuitry in primary visual cortex serves as an amplifier of preprocessed signals from thalamus, rather than building new representations.  He also theorizes about ways in which interneuron diversity may be catalogued and understood in the near future. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.