(Feb.4, '15) Top researchers will now be using mathematical modelling and
heavy computations to understand how the brain can both remember and learn.
Ten years ago, when the team of Marianne Fyhn and Torkel
Hafting Fyhn cooperated with the Nobel Prize winning team of May-Britt and
Edvard Moser at NTNU, they discovered the sense of orientation in the brain.
Now, in their own brain research group at the University of
Oslo, they are studying how the brain is able to store new memories while being
so stable that old memories are not diminished. They have recently established
close cooperation with the foremost computation experts at the University of
Oslo. Because regardless of how many experiments they do, they are dependent on
mathematical expertise to find the connections between the enormous number of
processes in the brain.