ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100452

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT140100452

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Comprehending and modelling the workings of the animal brain. Truly understanding how the brain operates is a grand challenge of 21st century neuroscience. Progress toward this goal can be made through studying small-brained animals, like the honey bee. This project aims to use microscopy and pharmacology to analyse the neural mechanisms by which bees learn and classify complex things. This will enable the construction of a computational model of decision making in the bee brain. Analysing this model will test what is understood about the operation of the animal brain, and what simulates it. This project aims to reveal how neural circuits make complex decisions; establish key principles and foundational studies for comprehending larger more complex brains, and yield new approaches to machine learning.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2015

End Date: 30-11-2022

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $690,204.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Invertebrate Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Invertebrate Biology | Zoology

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