Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, a leading brain sciences researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was awarded the US Society for Neuroscience’s $25,000 Swartz Prize. Sompolinsky’s “ring” model is the paradigm for modelling neural circuits and the basis of countless studies of short-term memory, decision-making, selectivity and receptive fields.
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