Inria Associate Teams

Cortina, associate team with Chile

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Thierry Viéville.

The goal of this associate team that finished this year is to combine our complementary expertise, from experimental biology and mathematical models (U de Valparaiso and U Federico Santa-Maria) to computational neuroscience (Mnemosyne and Neuromathcomp Project-teams), in order to develop common tools for the analysis and formalization of neural coding and related sensory-motor loops. Recording and modeling spike trains from the retina neural network, an accessible part of the brain, is a difficult task that our partnership can address, what constitute an excellent and unique opportunity to work together sharing our experience and to focus in developing computational tools for methodological innovations.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

We have informal relations with the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (Prof. Randall O'Reilly) concerning the computationally-based understanding of the neural circuits involved in affectively-driven decision making, including the basal ganglia (BG) and ventral and medial prefrontal cortex areas.