Neocortex has a uniform architecture (the ‘daisy architecture’, DA) consisting of a lattice of patchy populations of pyramidal neurons within cortical areas, and their embedding within inter-areal connections. Our hypothesis is that the DA supports self-organized, context-dependent processing; and that it can be reverse-engineered to provide a major advance in Information Technology by offering novel methods for scalable, distributed, autonomous computation.

We use a combination of neuroanatomical, imaging, theoretical, and hardware engineering methods to evaluate and develop this hypothesis, in a project executed by an inter-disciplinary consortium with record of excellent contributions to research.

See the DAISY project website (http://daisy.ini.unizh.ch/) for more information, or visit the group-specific project pages on our website for Kevan Martin or Rodney Douglas.