{"id":154757,"date":"2023-01-07T00:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/rafael-yuste-can-you-see-a-thought-neuronal-ensembles-as-emergent-units-of-cortical-function"},"modified":"2023-01-07T00:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:27:16","slug":"rafael-yuste-can-you-see-a-thought-neuronal-ensembles-as-emergent-units-of-cortical-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/rafael-yuste-can-you-see-a-thought-neuronal-ensembles-as-emergent-units-of-cortical-function","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Yuste: Can You See a Thought? Neuronal Ensembles as Emergent Units of Cortical Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rafael Yuste: Can You See a Thought? Neuronal Ensembles as Emergent Units of Cortical Function\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QRr_2PuzTZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>IBM Research hosts a fascinating seminar with Rafael Yuste, a world leader in optical methods for brain research. According to Professor Yuste, lifting neuroscience studies from looking at neurons one at a time to ensembles or functional units is key in our quest to understanding how brains work.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Yuste is a Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University and Co-director of the Kavli Foundations Institute for Neural Circuitry. He recently helped launch the BRAIN Initiative, a large-scale scientific project to systematically record and manipulate the activity of complete neural circuits.<\/p>\n<p>In this seminar, Rafael Yuste shows the results from his group\u2019s two-photon holographic methods to selectively image and manipulate the activity of neuronal populations in 3D in vivo. These experiments \u2013 from imaging neuron activities, triggering of neuron ensemble activities, and even altering behavioral choices bi-directionally \u2013 are shedding light on the possibility of neuronal ensembles being functional building blocks of cortical circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Research hosts a fascinating seminar with Rafael Yuste, a world leader in optical methods for brain research. According to Professor Yuste, lifting neuroscience studies from looking at neurons one at a time to ensembles or functional units is key in our quest to understanding how brains work. Rafael Yuste is a Professor of Biological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}