Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Class 29 

saturday 8 - 9:30 & Monday 8 - 9:30

Systems neuroscience is a subdiscipline of neuroscience and system biology that studies the function of neural circuits and systems. Researchers use animal models to emulate core cognitive processes. This allows for more detailed study of algorithms and neural circuits that produce the representations of the mind. Scientists examine how patterns of neuronal connections (circuits) give rise to patterns of neuronal activity, and how those patterns of neural activity give rise to overt behavioral and different internal neural states.

In 2015, Erik Sorto did something he thought he’d never do again: he raised a bottle of beer to his lips and took a drink. Paralyzed below the sternum for more than a decade after a gunshot damaged his spinal cord, Sorto didn’t use his own hand to hold his beverage, instead he controlled a robotic arm with his own thoughts.