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Treves, Alessandro
NENS Committee Member 2005-2007
Prof. Alessandro Treves
Professor of Neural Computation
Cognitive Neuroscience Sector
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
via Beirut 2
34014 Trieste, Italy
Current positions
2006- professor of neural computation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector,
SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy
2003- 20% associate professor at the Centre of Excellence for the Biology
of Memory, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests
Neural computation. Including:
Hippocampal circuitry and its operation in memory;
Cortical organization and attractor mechanisms;
Latching dynamics and the neural basis of language;
Storage capacity and dynamics of memory networks;
Information theoretic measures of neural activity.
Personal
b. 6 July 1960, Viareggio, Italy
married to Giordana
father to Nethanel, 1991, Ariela, 1994 and Shulamit, 1998
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Curriculum Vitae
Education and previous positions
- 1979-1985
- student at Yale College, Univ Firenze, Univ Roma I. Laurea in
Fisica from Univ Roma I (MSc, theoretical physics)
- 1985-1986,1987-1989
- student at Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem (physics). PhD,
on neural networks, with Daniel Amit
- 1989-1992
- postdoc at Oxford, with Edmund Rolls
- 1992-1995
- research fellow at SISSA, Biophysics Sector
- 1995-2000
- research fellow at SISSA, CNS
- 2000-2006
- associate professor at SISSA, CNS
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- School-related activities
- 1998-2000
- guest professor, Univ Udine
- 1999-2002
- co-director, EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
- 2000-2004
- coordinator, EU Marie Curie Training Site
"Convergent Techniques in Computational Neuroscience"
- 2003,2005
- guest professor, School of Cognitive Science, IPM, Tehran, Iran
- 2003-2004
- guest professor, Gonda Brain Research Centre, Bar Ilan Univ, Tel Aviv/Ramat Gan, Israel
Other activities
- 2000-01
- coordinator, CNS, SISSA
- 2006-
- European Brain and Behaviour Society committee member and 39th AGM organiser
- 2000-
- action editor, J Computational Neuroscience
- 2005-
- action editor, Cognition
- 2003-2006
- member of 2 review panels of the German BMBF funding
initiative "Understanding thought processes"
- 2006
- on the ex-post evaluation panel of the Volkswagenstiftung neuroscience funding initiative
- 2006-
- on the HFSP grant review panel
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Selected Publications
- A Treves (2003) Computational constraints that may have favoured the
lamination of sensory cortex. J Computational Neuroscience, 14:271-282.
- A Treves (2004) Computational constraints between retrieving the past and
predicting the future, and the CA3-CA1 differentiation. Hippocampus, 14:539-556.
- A Treves (2005) Frontal latching networks: a possible neural basis for infinitive
recursion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 276-291.
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