Studentship Networks

The network will bring together leading research groups at Sheffield, Leeds and York with overlapping interests and complementary skills in a new multidisciplinary collaboration, spanning experiment and theory from neurobiology, through cognition to bio-inspired software/hardware applications.  All network members have international track record in research in computational neuroscience and have not worked together before.  We envision a real oppotunity to devekop a strategic relationship with each other forming a platform to develop joint research and inititives.

The proposal is focussed on modelling aspects of action selection in human vision.  Vision is a favourite with computaional modellers, being arguably, the most researched part of the brain.  Nonetheless, high LEVEL VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IS STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD.  wE WILL COMBINE (1) experimental investigation of the performance of the visual system (2) data analysis and modelling at the neurobiological level and (3) high level modelling in software and hardware.

The proposal ideally matches the rcent Foresight initative on Cognitive Systems, which recognised that Computer Science and Neurobiology should work more together to develop better models of the nervous system as well as development of better computer systmes by sharing the knowlege of both communities.