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This
summary is dedicated to all those who have contributed, as indicated by
the
authors of each paper.
Unless
otherwise stated, these discoveries apply to humans and other primates.
All the
investigations are being performed in order to understand better the
human
brain in health and in disease, and with potential applications to
medicine
always in mind.
The
discoveries are being made as part of a program of research to follow
sensory
processing (including taste, olfactory and visual) through their
cortical
analysis stages, and then on to brain systems involved in emotion and
in
memory. By this systematic analysis and comparison between stages and
systems it
is becoming possible to understand what is being computed at each major
stage
of cortical processing.
This
then provides a firm foundation for further investigations into how the
processing is performed computationally, to lead to a deep and
multidisciplinary
understanding of brain function: what is computed, and how it is
computed.
These discoveries in turn provide bases for better understanding and treating mental disorders.
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Neuroscience of Emotion, reward,
pleasure, motivation, decision-making, taste, olfaction, touch, and appetite
including
implications for the control of food intake and obesity
Neuroscience of Vision
Neuroscience of Memory, Spatial Function, and Navigation
Computational neuroscience theories of brain
function and
behaviour
Discoveries
on the brain bases of mental disorders
Human Cortical Connectivity
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