{"id":234,"date":"2019-02-16T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.ape\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:01:56","slug":"human-brain-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apegate.roma1.infn.it\/?page_id=234","title":{"rendered":"Human Brain Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Human Brain Project is a European-funded research initiative involving more than 100 institutions all over the continent.\u00a0The goal of the project is to unveil the secrets of the human brain and uncover the mechanisms responsible for cognitive processes, learning and consciousness.\u00a0<\/span>The key-word for HBP is\u00a0<\/span>multi-disciplinarity<\/span>: HBP is not only a fruitful ground for pioneering research in the field of neuroscience, but also a successful experiment of collaboration between several different scientists, bridging together medical doctors, biologists, physicists,\u00a0<\/span>computer scientists,\u00a0<\/span>engineers and philosophers, and linking experimental data with theoretical models and high-performance computer simulations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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HBP started in 2013, with the so-called\u00a0<\/span>ramp-up<\/em>\u00a0phase, during which the backbone and the main scientific targets of the project have been defined. In this starting phase, calls have been opened to the scientific community\u00a0<\/span>in order to extend the objectives of research and to address specific goals.\u00a0 A<\/span>\u00a0dedicated scientific board selected the projects that won the competition\u00a0<\/span>among the several applicants, forming\u00a0<\/span>what is now called the\u00a0Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sub-Project\u00a0<\/span>(SP3)<\/span>. One of the 4 winner projects<\/a> was\u00a0WaveScalES<\/span>, led by\u00a0<\/span>Pier Stanislao Paolucci<\/a>.\u00a0With it, APE Lab and INFN entered the HBP project since its first Scientific Grant Agreement phase (SGA1, 2016-2018), guiding an\u00a0<\/span>international collaboration aimed at investigating the role of the different expressions of electrophysiological activity of the cortex during deep sleep. Activities went on during\u00a0<\/span>the SGA2 (2018-2020), followed by SGA3 in 2020 and came to a conclusion in 2023. In these years, we have consolidated our position in the field, gaining experience and extending our network and lines of actions. O<\/span>ur past and present research interests and efforts are focused on several items (theses available<\/a>):<\/span><\/p>