Speaker: György Buzsáki
New York University, United States

Abstract: Emergence and mechanisms of cognition

The fundamental goal of the brain is to predict the future. More complex brains evolved multiple hierarchical loops between their outputs and inputs to make prediction more reliable in more complex environments and at longer time scales. With extensive training these prediction mechanisms have become ‘internalized’. At the center of this model are self-propagating loops of neuronal coalitions connected by modifiable synapses that can be propelled forward without external cues. The implication of this conjecture is that brain networks are endowed with internal mechanisms that can generate a perpetually changing neuronal activity even in the absence of environmental inputs. I will discuss examples and mechanisms of this framework.


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