Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101968

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140101968

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding complex networks of connections in the primate cerebral cortex. The most fundamental characteristic of brain cells is that they can interchange information through electrical pulses, which run along cable-like membrane specialisations. This creates a hugely complex network of cell-to-cell connections. Understanding this network is necessary to allow new insights on how the brain works as an integrated system, and on how information processing in the brain changes as result of diseases and normal ageing. This project will produce the first comprehensive digital map of the connections in a primate brain. This project will use advanced statistical techniques to determine how to best subdivide the brain into processing nodes, and the logic behind the network of connections that integrates these nodes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $560,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System | Animal Physiology - Systems | Animal Neurobiology | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Neurobiology | Animal Physiology - Systems | Central Nervous System | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences | Neurosciences

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