Session moderated by Stanislas Dehaene.
Each 30' paper will be followed by a 10' discussion.
Abstract
During postnatal development, the different regions of the cerebral cortex must adapt to the world in its multiple components. This time-limited, non-synchronous learning is mediated by sensory, motor, affective and social signals. These signals initiate the maturation of a relatively simple learning circuit, preserved throughout the cortex, based on the evolution of the balance between inhibition and excitation within this circuit. In adults, if the ability to learn is lost or diminished, the cortex may retain for life more or less happy after-effects of its " developmental adventure ". Hence the interest in transiently modulating the Excitation/Inhibition balance in adults, in order to reopen a period of plasticity favorable to new learning or to the correction of unfortunate learning " ".
