by michaelhalassa | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
This past November, I had the privilege of directing the 13th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium—a day filled with inspiring talks, lively discussions, and deep engagement across the neuroscience community. This year’s symposium centered around Systems,...
by michaelhalassa | Dec 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
The brain’s ability to adapt to a constantly changing world is one of its most remarkable features. Cognitive flexibility—the capacity to shift strategies and update decision-making when circumstances change—is essential for navigating everyday life. This a...
by michaelhalassa | Oct 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the quest to understand how our brains process and adapt to complex environments, computational models have long served as powerful tools to simulate neural circuits. This has been certainly the case for vision, starting with Hubel and Wiesel receptive field models...