My research focuses on learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. I also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippocampus and neocortex. Computationally and algorithmically, my group uses ideas from Bayesian approaches to statistical inference and reinforcement learning to characterize the goals and mechanisms of learning in terms of normative principles and behavioral results. We also perform dynamical systems analyses of reduced biophysical models to understand the mapping of these mechanisms into cellular and network models. We collaborate very closely with experimental neuroscience groups, doing in vitro intracellular recordings, multi-unit recordings in behaving animals, and human psychophysical and fMRI experiments.

Beside being a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, I am Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

For more information, please see my Cambridge home page at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~m.lengyel.