3 projects

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Understanding brain circuit dysfunction in amblyopia using large-scale multimodal recordings in a new visuomotor task.

Some theories about brain function consider the brain as a prediction machine. Based on previous experience, our brains may perform an "autocompletion" function during pretty much every thing we do, and perhaps, think. Here we will study amblyopia, or best known as "lazy eye" in a mouse model to ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Optical dissection of a cortical head direction circuit

How do complex cognitive functions such as reasoning, memory and problem solving, emerge from the properties of neural circuits? To answer this question we must start perhaps by studying simple cognitive functions and tractable circuits. A basic cognitive function that is often taken for granted ...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

The role of disinhibition in sensory processing

The brain is composed of billions of neurons that make trillions of synaptic connections. So how can we come to understand such a complicated organ? One way to deal with this complexity, is to study small components of the brain. Just like a computer, the brain is built of basic circuit componen...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove