The brain is flooded with information about the outside world from its sensory receptors, and one of the fundamental goals of neuroscience is to understand exactly how this information is filtered and represented in the activity of sensory systems. Cracking this ‘neural code’ is essential for understanding how the brain makes decisions and governs behavior, as well as for developing clinical strategies to replace brain function lost to trauma or disease.

The classical approach to investigating the neural code is to measure the activity of one neuron at a time. In my research group, we take advantage of recent advances in technology to study the activity of many neurons at the same time. With the data collected in these experiments, and methods that we and others have developed to analyze it, we can hopefully progress beyond our understanding of the brain as a collection of individual neurons toward an understanding of the brain as a complex network of interconnected populations.

For more detailed information about our research, please visit our lab homepage:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/lesicalab