My long-term research goal is to understand how a nervous system constructs a model of the world. How do brains learn about the structure of their environment? How do they encode this information in networks, and how is it used to control adaptive behaviour? To answer these fundamental questions, two major technical advances must occur:

1. The development of virtual worlds in which the statistics and physics of the environment can be manipulated, providing experimental control over the model formed by an animal’s nervous system.
2. The design and construction of novel devices for simultaneously recording from large populations of neurons throughout the brain of a behaving animal.

My research group strives to address both of these problems.

Adam Kampff, PhD
Adjunct Investigator
adam.kampff@neuro.fchampalimaud.org

Biography

Danbee Kim
2012 INDP PhD Student
danbee.kim@neuro.fchampalimaud.org

Gonçalo Lopes
2010 INDP PhD Student
goncalo.lopes@neuro.fchampalimaud.org

Lorenza Calcaterra, MD
2013 INDP PhD Student
lorenza.calcaterra@neuro.fchampalimaud.org

Neto JP; Baião P; Lopes G; Frazão J; Nogueira J; Fortunato E; Barquinha P; Kampff AR (2018) Does Impedance Matter When Recording Spikes With Polytrodes? Front Neurosci (doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00715. eCollection 2018)

Kawai R, Markman T, Poddar R, Ko R, Fantana AL, Dhawale AK, Kampff AR, Ölveczky BP. (2015) Motor Cortex Is Required for Learning but Not for Executing a Motor Skill Neuron 86 (3), p800–812 (doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.024)

Lopes G, Bonacchi N, Frazão J, Neto JP, Atallah BV, Soares S, Moreira L, Matias S, Itskov PM, Correia PA, Medina RE, Calcaterra L, Dreosti E, Paton JJ, Kampff AR (2015) Bonsai: An event-based framework for processing and controlling data streams Front. Neuroinform. 9 (7) (doi:10.3389/fninf.2015.00007)

Lopes G, Kampff AR (2015) Cortical Control: Learning from the Lamprey Curr. Biol. 25 (5), pR203–R205 (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.020)

Gomez-Marin A, Paton JJ, Kampff AR, Costa RM, Mainen ZF. (2014) Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience Nat. Neurosci. (17), 1455–1462 (doi: 10.1038/nn.3812)

Naumann EA, Kampff AR, Prober DA, Schier AF, Engert F (2010) Monitoring neural activity with bioluminescence during natural behavior Nat. Neurosci. 13 (4), 513-520 (doi:10.1038/nn.2518.)

Orger MB, Kampff AR, Severi KE, Bollmann JH, Engert F (2008) Control of visual behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons. Nat. Neurosci. 11 (3), 327-333 (doi:10.1038/nn2048)