Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN)
A leading research centre aiming to understand the emergence of high-level brain functions.
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Photo by Geir Mogen / Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. This is a grid cell. Grid cells are located in the brain's enthorinal cortex. They help humans and other mammals find our way. This grid cell is captured by Menno Witter at Kavli. -
Image by Richard Gardener / Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience The grid cells are known as the brain's GPS. To find your way, you need to know where you are, where you are going and how to get there. These grid cells are recorded by Richard Gardner at Kavli using Neuropixels probes. -
Photo by Julie Gloppe Solem / Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. Grid cells were first discovered in rats by the Moser Group in 2005. Grid cells have since been discovered in species as diverse as bats, monkeys and humans. They are part of a navigational system that evolved in the pre-mammal brain hundreds of millions of years ago.
CENTRES AT KISN
Kavli Leader Team
Groups at KISN
Moser Group:
Space and memory
Whitlock Group:
Cognitive motor function
Kentros Group:
Transgenic investigation of neural circuits
Yaksi Group:
Sensory computations
Navarro Schröder Group:
Vision and navigation
Quattrocolo Group:
Circuit development
Nigro Group:
Perception and cognition
Ziaei Group:
Aging Neuroscience
Gonzalo Cogno Group:
Neural dynamics and computation
Zong Group:
Neurophotonics
Support Group:
Admin Tech
Visiting Professors
Yasser Roudi
Professor
Kavli Institute research: SPINOr - Stat.Phys. of Inference and Network Organization
WP4C: Principles of efficient learning in cortical networks, Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex
Menno Witter
Professor Emeritus
WP3: Early-stage pathology in entorhinal cortex of rodent AD models, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Alzheimers Disease
Yoram Burak
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
WP4A: Continuous attractor network models in space-coding brain systems, Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex
Christian Doeller
Professor
WP4 Space and time in the human brain: translation to the clinic, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Alzheimers Disease
