Workshop Session on Big Data in Neuroscience
During the CLMS annual symposium
Thursday 28th June 2012
1.30pm - 3pm
UCL Wilkins Building (Old Refectory)
(Please note that you can come to this session without registering for or attending the whole meeting)
Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Tim Behrens (FMRIB, University of Oxford)
Michael Häusser (NPP, WIBR, UCL)
Angus Silver (NPP, UCL)
Neuroscience, like all other areas of science, is moving inexorably in
the direction of generating huge volumes of data. Improved and new
experimental methods in experimental and computational anatomy,
physiology and behaviour are collectively creating challenges and
opportunities that will come to define the next phases of the
discipline. Key challenges are statistical and computational, extracting
and creating information from data; the key opportunity is to use this
information to find and prove new relationships within and across the
levels of empirical and theoretical investigation.
In this workshop session, we will discuss these developments, informed
by dispatches from three areas of the field that are in the forefront of
the evolution: connectivity at macroscopic (Behrens) and microscopic
(Häusser) scales; and large scale physiological simulations
(Silver). Huge projects beckon and threaten in this area, rendering the
discussion highly topical.