Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

The Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience group (TCN) specialises in the application of rigorous, quantitative approaches, including mathematical and computational modelling and psychophysics, to understanding information coding, processing, storage and transmission in the brain and its manifestation in perception, reasoning and action. Areas of study include:

• visual and auditory perception and psychophysics
• sensorimotor control, in particular oculomotor control
• mathematical and computational modelling of the cortical neural circuitry underlying perception, attention,learning and memory, and movement control

Academic staff in TCN are: Prof Roman Borisyuk (mathematical neuroscience); Dr Susan Denham (audition); Prof Mike Denham (vision); Dr Daniel Durstewitz (biophysical modelling); Prof Chris Harris (sensorimotor control); Dr Thomas Wennekers (neural computation).

TCN has a number of externally-funded research programmes and strong international links. It is currently active in collaborating with researchers in the neuromorphic systems area, in particular in the implementation within artificial systems of the computational principles and models of neural processing it is investigating, in particular in vision, audition, learning and memory, and sensorimotor systems.