Rauschen im Kopf

In the organizer's words:

Discharges from our nerve cells not only occur under signal control, but also spontaneously. Does this background noise have a function?

Benjamin Lindner, Jacob Stubenrauch and Jochen Müller

An event in the Berlin Brains on Tour series at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin

Everything we experience, decide and carry out is mediated by electrical discharges from our nerve cells. The patterns of these electrical pulses are surprisingly random - they occur not only in response to incoming signals, but also spontaneously. Where does this spontaneous variability come from? Is it good for something? And how can information be transmitted despite the neuronal noise? The physicist Benjamin Lindner and his doctoral student Jakob Stubenrauch are researching these questions in theoretical neuroscience and will present some concepts and methods. Jochen Müller moderates.

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