Labex Cortex

Understanding the cerebral CORTEX

CORTEX aims at analysing brain mechanisms such as sensory perception, motor control and cognitive processes such as decision making.

Building cerebral CORTEX

CORTEX aims at analysing brain development so as to identify biological basis of neurodevelopmental pathologies such as epilepsy, schizophreny and autism.

Repairing the CORTEX

CORTEX aims at developping innovative therapies, sensory and cognitive remediation.

CORTEX and Economics

CORTEX aims at tracing the anatomy of social emotions that underlie decisional processes applied to the fields of labor, public economics or asset markets.

Developping Stem-Cells biology

Understanding human stem-cell biology and developping evolved models of diseases.

Who we are

CORTEX is a project that was awarded LabEx (Laboratoire d'Excellence) by the French Government (through international experts) via the ANR (the National Research Agency). The LabEx projects are part of a state initiative that promotes Excellency in French Research. The LabEx projects contribute to improve international visibility of the French best research teams. Consequent funding allow reinforcement of the scientific potential from these specific teams thanks to recrutments and equipments.

Qui sommes nous

CORTEX est un projet labellisé LabEx (Laboratoire d'Excellence) par le gouvernement français via l'ANR. Les LabEx font partie d'une initiative nationale qui tend à promouvoir l'Excellence dans la Recherche française. Les projets LabEx contribue à améliorer la visibilité internationale des meilleures équipes françaises. les financements perçus permettent de renforcer le potentiel scientifique des équipes grâce à des recrutements et des achats d'équipement.

Conference

CORTEX conference by Christian Ruff

10/23/2017 - 5:00pm

Jean-Claude Dreher has invited Christian Ruff from the University of Zurich to come and give a talk on:

Value-based decision making by populations of probabilistic neurons

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