BM Seminars: Gustavo Deco presents the research lines at Computational Neuroscience Group of the UPF

Jul 03, 2008 - BM news

Gustavo Deco, professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies Pompeu Fabra University, researcher at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and a head of Computational Neuroscience Group, has presented the main research areas of the group to the assistants of the 2nd July session of the BM Seminars’ cycle, which is organized by Barcelona Media.

The Computational Neuroscience Group, presently integrated by eight doctors and eleven doctorate students of different nationalities and disciplines, works on seven research areas: decision making, visuomotor associations, data analysis, multisensorial integration, audio processing, attention and rest state. The group develops research tasks, among others, for the European projects BrainSync, Decisions-in-motion and EmCAP (Emergent Cognition through Active Perception), in which Barcelona Media also participates.

Professor Deco has explained two of the research works on which the group is working, from experiments with apes previously carried out by doctors Ranulfo Romo and Emilio Salinas. By means of the analysis of the behaviour of the apes cells before different stimuli, they study the decision making and the perception detection, as well as the somatosensorial detection of the apes.

Gustavo Deco (Argentina, 1961) is PhD in Physics, Computer science and Psychology. Among others, he has worked at the Siemens Corporate Research Center of Munich (Germany), where he led the Computational Neuroscience Group. He is author of three books, nineteen chapters of several publications and more than a hundred articles in international magazines and he is holder of forty-eight patents in Europe, USA, Canada and Japan.