How does environmental enrichment affect brain development?

丰富的环境如何影响大脑发育？

• 批准号: DP210102473
• 负责人: Prof Geoffrey Goodhill
• 金额: $ 11.33万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP210102473
• 关键词: How; does; environmental; enrichment; affect

This project aims to use brain imaging and advanced computational analyses to investigate how early sensory experience affects brain development. It adopts the larval zebrafish as a model system, since they display sophisticated behaviours from an early age, and neural activity can be recorded at whole-brain scale with single neuron resolution. The project aims to generate new knowledge regarding environmental effects on brain development and behaviour. This will provide significant benefits including greater insight into normal brain development, and the formulation of new concepts potentially relevant for brain-inspired computing. The expected outcomes also include enhanced capacity at the interface between neuroscience and computation.

该项目旨在利用脑成像和先进的计算分析来研究早期感官体验如何影响大脑发育。它采用斑马鱼幼虫作为模型系统，因为它们从小就表现出复杂的行为，而且神经活动可以用单个神经元的分辨率在全脑范围内记录下来。该项目旨在产生关于环境对大脑发育和行为影响的新知识。这将提供显著的好处，包括更深入地了解正常的大脑发育，以及制定与大脑启发计算潜在相关的新概念。预期的结果还包括增强神经科学和计算之间的接口能力。