Cristina Savin

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Since September 2010, I am a Research Associate in the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at Cambridge University, working with Dr. Mate Lengyel. Before, I did a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, under the supervision of Prof. Jochen Triesch.

In very generic terms, my research focuses on learning and memory in the brain. I try to understand different plasticity mechanisms in relation to the computational functions that neural circuits need to perform. So far, I have been investigating the role of different homeostatic mechanism in learning efficient representations of sensory inputs. I am also interested in how task constraints shape neural representations in prefrontal cortex, especially in relation to working memory. More recently, I’ve started looking at associative memory networks and the influence of certain neuromodulators on storage and recall.

For more details, have a look at my publications.

Last modified: 5 December 2010