How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish
György Buzsáki is Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. He studies memory formation and how brain rhythms affect cognition. He was a co-recipient of the 2011 Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation. Buzsáki is author most recently of The Brain from Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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