The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a second funding period for the Research Consortium ‘RobustCircuit’ (FOR5289) under the Speakership of the laboratory of Robin Hiesinger. All PIs were retained from the first funding period with new projects based on the outcomes of the first funding period. RobustCircuit is a Research Consortium to Study the Role of Noise in Brain…
Berlin Radio (RBB) interview about the research in the Hiesinger lab and its connection to understanding information encoding in biological and artificial neural networks – the topic of The Self-Assembling Brain. The interview ‘Die Neurobiologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz’ (in German) is available here. A related online lecture ‘Neurobiology of Artificial Intelligence’ (recorded by IEEE Computational Intellgence Society, Dec. 2024, in…
The information content of the brain, i.e. the size of a hard drive it would take for lossless up- anddownloading of information stored in biological neural networks of any size, is unknown. Bycontrast, the information content of artificial neural networks that underlie virtually allcontemporary artificial intelligence, is well defined and can be saved on a hard drive in a precisenumber…
There is an exciting, increasing interest of the neuromorphic computing community in the development of biological neural networks and The Self-Assembling Brain. Recent invited lectures include the International Conference for Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (Aachen, 2024), and the International Workshop on Reliable and Systainable Neuromorphic Hardware (York, 2025), with production of a mindmap during the introductory keynote: Next opportunity to…
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Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation Agi et al., 2024, Science. PMID: 38452066, DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3043 Abstract The idea of guidance toward a target is central to axon pathfinding and brain wiring in general. In this work, we show how several thousand axonal growth cones self-pattern without target-dependent guidance during neural superposition wiring in Drosophila. Ablation of…
The audiobook (read by Joel Richards) is about to be released – and the publisher has initiated a preorder promotion (and some new cover art :). Check it out on audiobooks.com!
Since Princeton University Press has announced the release of the Paperback of The Self-Assembling Brain for Dec. 13, 2022, we are glad to announce that the audio rights have been licensed to Recorded Books! This is going to be interesting, especially for the 10 dialogues of our favorite geneticist, robotics engineer, Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Neuroscientist. We’ll post the release…
Princeton University Press will release the Paperback of The Self-Assembling Brain in December! Check out reviews in Science, TechTalks, on goodreads & amazon, …and a series of podcasts. How does a neural network become a brain? While developmental neurobiologists investigate how genes encode the growth of intricate connectivity as a basis for learning, computer scientists design artificial neural networks with…
The June 2021 Lecture ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’ has now been watched more than 100.000 times on youtube, with 3.600 likes. Well, maybe not much in a world of internet celebrities, but remember, this is only a lecture on the brain and AI, with very little in the direction of self-help and zero pictures of cute cats… Thank you again to…