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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, à la simulation de réseaux de neurones (en particulier le simulateur Brian), aux canaux sodium 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 assistant 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, simulation of spiking neural networks (in particular the Brian simulator), sodium channels 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).

I supervise a small group of young researchers:

• Jonathan Platkiewicz: dynamics of the sodium channel and variability of the spike threshold.
• Dan Goodman: development of the Brian simulator and sound localization.
• Cyrille Rossant: correlations in spiking models of low-level vision and audition.
• Bertrand Fontaine: synaptic plasticity in auditory models
• Victor Benichoux: neural models of rhythm perception

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: Brette, R. (2009). Generation of correlated spike trains. Neural Comput 21(1): 188–215. I present two general methods to generate sets of spike trains with given firing rates and pairwise correlation functions, along with efficient simulation algorithms.

Selected publications

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.

Brette, R. (2008). The Cauchy problem for one-dimensional spiking neuron models. Cognitive Neurodynamics 2(1) 21-27.

Brette, R. and W. Gerstner (2005). Adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire model as an effective description of neuronal activity. J Neurophysiol 94: 3637-3642.

Brette, R. (2004). Dynamics of one-dimensional spiking neuron models. J Math Biol  48(1): 38-56.

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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)1.44.32.26.72
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Book: The Handbook of Neural Activity Measurement