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Je suis maître de conférences en neurosciences computationnelles dans le département d'études cognitives de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, où je suis intégré à l'équipe Audition. Mon thème principal est la computation impulsionnelle dans le système auditif. Je m'intéresse également aux modèles impulsionnels de neurones (notamment la dynamique du seuil), à la simulation de réseaux de neurones (en particulier le simulateur Brian), et aux méthodes d'enregistrement intracellulaire. Je suis membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France et éditeur de la collection Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience. Je suis également membre associé du Group for Neural Theory. Mes travaux sont principalement financés par l'European Research Council (Starting Grant).

I am an associate professor in computational neuroscience at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and I am in the research team Audition. My main interest is spike-based computation in the auditory system (especially sound localization and pitch perception). I am also working on spiking neuron models (including threshold dynamics), simulation of spiking neural networks (in particular the Brian simulator), and intracellular recording techniques (I invented the AEC technique with collaborators from UNIC). I am a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and an editor of the Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience (with Alain Destexhe). I am also an associated faculty member of the Group for Neural Theory. My work is primarily funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant).

To have an overview of my research, you can read my Habilitation thesis, written in 2009: "Spike-based models of neural computation".

I lead a group of young researchers:

• Cyrille Rossant: correlations in spiking models of low-level vision and audition
• Bertrand Fontaine: synaptic plasticity in auditory models, models of monaural neurons in sound localization
• Victor Benichoux: neural models of sound localization in reverberant environments
• Jonathan Laudanski: neural models of pitch perception
• Marcel Stimberg: spike-based auditory computation
• Marc Rébillat: the role of sound diffraction in ITD processing

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested in joining us to work on spike-based computation in the auditory system (project funded an ERC Starting Grant).

Featured publication: Rossant C, Leijon S, Magnusson AK, Brette R (2011). Sensitivity of noisy neurons to coincident inputs. J Neurosci 31(47):17193-17206. Using simple models and recordings in the cortex, we show that neurons are extremely sensitive to coincidences in their inputs, so much that a rate-based description of their operation is likely to be inaccurate in general.

Selected publications

Platkiewicz J, Brette R (2011). Impact of Fast Sodium Channel Inactivation on Spike Threshold Dynamics and Synaptic Integration. PLoS Comp Biol 7(5): e1001129. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001129.

Rossant C, Goodman DF, Fontaine B, Platkiewicz J, Magnusson AK and Brette R (2011). Fitting neuron models to spike trains. Front Neurosci. 5:9. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00009

Goodman DF and R Brette (2010). Spike-timing-based computation in sound localization. PLoS Comp Biol 6(11): e1000993. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000993.

Goodman, D. and R. Brette (2009). The Brian simulator. Front Neurosci doi:10.3389/neuro.01.026.2009.

Brette et al (2008). High-resolution intracellular recordings using a real-time computational model of the electrode. Neuron 59(3):379-91.

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Contact:
Romain Brette
Equipe Audition
Département d'Etudes Cognitives
Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, rue d'Ulm
75230 Paris Cedex 05
Tel: +33 (0)1.44.32.26.13
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Book: The Handbook of Neural Activity Measurement