Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh
Ba (Hons), MSc, PhD
Expertise
Our lab aims to understand how the brain’s anatomy shapes our conscious experience and cognition, and how differences in anatomy across species and across people may lead to different experiences and cognitive abilities.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer and Faculty Student Access and Inclusion Officer
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Biography
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Revealing the circuit mechanisms of altered conscious perception with neuropixels recordings and biophysically-inspired neural networks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
09/02/2023 to 08/07/2024
Revealing the circuit mechanisms of altered conscious perception with neuropixels recordings and biophysically-inspired neural networks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
09/02/2023 to 08/08/2024
Revealing the circuit mechanisms of altered conscious perception with neuropixels recordings and biophysically-inspired neural networks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
09/02/2023 to 08/08/2024
Identifying network and neurochemical mechanisms for hallucinations and working memory deficits in schizophrenia using neural network modelling and neuroimaging
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
16/01/2023 to 15/07/2026
Publications
Selected publications
19/06/2023Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex
Nature Neuroscience
Recent publications
19/08/2024Benchmarking macaque brain gene expression for horizontal and vertical translation
Cell type-specific connectome predicts distributed working memory activity in the mouse brain
eLife
Multimodal mapping of macaque monkey somatosensory cortex
Progress in Neurobiology
The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition
Cerebral Cortex
Cytoarchitectonic, receptor distribution and functional connectivity analyses of the macaque frontal lobe
eLife
Teaching
I teach topics at the intersection of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. My teaching focus is on active learning and research-rich teaching and learning.
My current teaching focus is on creating the new Cognitive Artificial Intelligence unit for Engineering Mathematics students.
Recently, I have taught Information Processing and the Brain and Learning, Computation and the Brain to Computer Science students, and guest lectured on Neural Systems and Computation to Psychology and Neuroscience students.
I also regularly design and perform science outreach activities and talks, on topics including "Stress and the brain", "Engineering to understand the brain and cure disorders" and "The neuroscience of normal and abnormal conscious experiences".