ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Deciphering the logic of representational drift and its conversion to stable readouts.
We perceive the world around us as constant. When we engage in the same action over days and weeks, for instance when we walk down a familiar road, it feels the same every day. Neurons build a model (or representation) of the external world that is thought to guide behaviour. However, neural representations change over time, leading to a restructured model of the world. This phenomenon, called representational drift, has been identified across a range of brain regions and behaviours, and poses a conceptual challenge: How can changing neural correlates of external variables be reconciled with perceptual stability? This proposal aims to decipher this discrepancy. We recently showed that the…
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