How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish
György Buzsáki is a systems neuroscientist whose work has focused on the ways memories form and how brain rhythms segment neural information to support cognition. He was a co-recipient of the 2011 Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation. Buzsáki is author most recently of The Brain from Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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