Dr. Christof Koch of Allen Institute on the architecture of the brain and consciousness

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 6:57 p.m.

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Scientific Sense \\xae by Gill Eapen: Dr. Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. His passion are neurons \\u2013 the atoms of perception, memory, behavior and consciousness \\u2013 their diverse shapes, electrical behaviors, and their computational function within the mammalian brain, in particular in neocortex.

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