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About

We are a computational neuroscience research group, split between Ulster University in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and University of Bristol in Bristol, in south-west England.

Research

We work on three main areas: Learning & Memory, Autism, and Statistical methods for neural data.

Learning and Memory

Statistical methods for neural data
How should we analyse data from large numbers of neurons? We work on statistical methods for analysing large-scale neural datasets, including: deep neural networks, probabilistic models of neural population activity distributions, and bayesian hierarchal modelling.
Work by Kipp and Cian.

Autism
What is different in the brains of autistic people? We collaborate with researchers who work on animal models of autism to ask what is different at the level of neural circuits. Currently we are asking how computational modelling can inform neural circuit-level understanding of autism mechanisms.
Work by Lily, Hugh and Cian.

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