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Alexandre Pouget
Professor
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Brain And Cognitive Sciences
Areas of expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience
Press contact:
Susan Hagen
susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585.276.4061
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Biography
Alex Pouget’s research strives to uncover general principles of computation in neural circuits, and more particularly, cortical circuits. Answering this question is critical to understanding how the brain performs a wide variety of tasks, including seeing, hearing, representing the external world, making decisions or controlling motor behavior.