The Computational Neuroscience of Sensory Systems group belongs to the Vision Institute in Paris (INSERM/CNRS/UPMC). We are also affiliated to Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris. We have been supported by ANR, ERC and FRM.

We are working on three research themes: 1) single neuron modeling, in particular neural excitability; 2) sensory systems; 3) technologies for neural network simulation and electrophysiology.

Recent publications

• Sarah Goethals, Martijn Christiaan Sierksma, Xavier Nicol, Annabelle Réaux-Le Goazigo, Romain Brette, 2021. Electrical match between initial segment and somatodendritic compartment for action potential backpropagation in retinal ganglion cells, Journal of Neurophysiology. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Romain D Cazé, Marcel Stimberg, 2021. Neurons with dendrites can perform linearly separable computations with low resolution synaptic weights [version 3; peer review: 3 approved], F1000Research, volume 9. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Mickaël Zbili, Sylvain Rama, Pierre Yger, Yanis Inglebert, Norah Boumedine-Guignon, Laure Fronzaroli-Moliniere, Romain Brette, Michaël Russier, Dominique Debanne, 2020. Axonal Na+ channels detect and transmit levels of input synchrony in local brain circuits, Science Advances, volume 6. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Sarah Goethals, Romain Brette, 2020. Theoretical relation between axon initial segment geometry and excitability, eLife, volume 9. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Dan F. M. Goodman, Thomas Nowotny, 2020. Brian2GeNN: accelerating spiking neural network simulations with graphics hardware, Sci Rep, volume 10. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Anirudh Kulkarni, Irene Elices, Nicolas Escoubet, Léa-Laetitia Pontani, Alexis Michel Prevost, Romain Brette, 2020. A simple device to immobilize protists for electrophysiology and microinjection, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 223. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Charlotte Le Mouel, Romain Brette, 2019. Anticipatory coadaptation of ankle stiffness and sensorimotor gain for standing balance, PLOS Computational Biology, volume 15. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette, Dan FM Goodman, 2019. Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator, eLife (Frances K Skinner, ed.), volume 8. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Charlotte Le Mouel, Romain Tisserand, Thomas Robert, Romain Brette, 2019. Postural adjustments in anticipation of predictable perturbations allow elderly fallers to achieve a balance recovery performance equivalent to elderly non-fallers, Gait & Posture, volume 71. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Dan F. M. Goodman, Romain Brette, Maurizio De Pittà, 2019. Modeling Neuron--Glia Interactions with the Brian 2 Simulator, Chapter in Computational Glioscience (Maurizio De Pittà, Hugues Berry, eds.), Springer. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Romain Brette, 2019. Neural coding: The bureaucratic model of the brain, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 42. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Romain Brette, 2019. Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 42. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]