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Emmanouil Froudarakis

Emmanouil Froudarakis
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Emmanouil Froudarakis

Collaborating Faculty Member (Assistant Professor, University of Crete)

Our lab investigates how cortical circuits across different brain areas interact to form multimodal object representations that can guide behavior. Natural scenes contain large number of objects, and our brain is capable of using information from different sensory modalities to extract their identities with ease. Yet, despite extensive research in the last few decades, we are still far from having a complete understanding of how the brain creates untangled (transformation-invariant) object representations. If we understood how brains achieve this extraordinary ability at the algorithmic level, this would represent a significant advance in our understanding of cortical computation. To address this question, we combine advanced imaging techniques for recording neural activity with high-throughput behavioral training and computational modeling to study how the activity of large neuronal populations across different cortical regions enables behaving animals to identify and isolate objects in different contexts.