BRG

Areas of research

Sleep

Mechanisms and functional role of sleep in memory and learning

Olfaction

Information processing, plasticity and learning in the olfactory system

Epilepsy

Mechanisms of trauma-induced epileptogenesis and seizures

Neuro-Inspired AI

Neuroscience inspired principles for Artificial Intelligence

Cancer

Collective invasion and social interactions within tumor cell populations

News and Recent Publications

Sleep-like unsupervised replay reduces catastrophic forgetting in artificial neural networks

2023 AUG

Timothy Tadros, Giri P Krishnan, Ramyaa Ramyaa, Maxim Bazhenov Nat Commun, 2022 Dec 15;13(1):7742. doi: 10...

New Scientist article about sleep in neural networks

2022 NOV

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2346597-ai-uses-artificial-sleep-to-learn-new-task-without-forgetting-the-las...

Our team was awarded by grant from NSF Brain-Inspired Dynamics for Engineering Energy-Efficient Circuits and Artificial Intelligence (BRAID) program

2022 NOV

The goals of this work are to reveal theoretical principles behind the beneficial role of sleep for memory and lea...

Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representation

2022 NOV

Golden R, Delanois JE, Sanda P, Bazhenov M. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Nov 18;18(11):e1010628. doi: 10.1371/journal.p...