Alfonso Renart. Completed the Doutoramento in Ciencias Físicas in 2000 by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Licenciatura in Ciências Físicas in 1996 by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Is Group Leader (Level Associate) in Fundação Champalimaud. Has received 2 awards and/or honors.

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Alfonso Renart

Nomes de citação

  • Renart, Alfonso

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
0C1E-6976-B656
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7916-9930

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Grau Classificação
2000
Concluído
 Ciencias Físicas (Doutoramento)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Espanha
"Models of Multi-areal cortical processing" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 Sobresaliente (cum laude)
1996
Concluído
 Ciências Físicas (Licenciatura)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Espanha
"n/a" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 n/a

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2016/01/01 - Atual Group Leader (Level Associate) Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2016/12/31 Director of the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2011/02/01 - 2015/12/31 Group Leader (Level Assistant) Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2005/05/01 - 2010/12/31 Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kenneth Harris, at Rutgers University. Electrophysiological recordings of neuronal populations in freely moving rats and mathematical modeling of the temporal structu Rutgers University Newark, Estados Unidos
2004/02/01 - 2005/04/30 Ramon y Cajal researcher. Faculty level position, with the possibility of supervising PhD students and postdocs etc... Research on mathematical models of interval timing and noisy neuronal population Instituto de Neurociencias, Espanha
2001/01/01 - 2003/12/31 Postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Xiao-Jing Wang, at the Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University. Research on mathematical models of spatial working memory and interval timing. Brandeis University, Estados Unidos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2023/12/31 - 2026/12/31 Weber's law: a mechanistic window into sensory disfunction in autism spectrum disorders
HR23-00799
Investigador responsável
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
 Fundação 'la Caixa'
Em curso
2022/01/01 - 2025/01/01 The neural basis of Weber's Law
PTDC/MED-NEU/4584/2021
Investigador responsável
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2018/06/01 - 2021/06/30 Robustness and Energy-Efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks
LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-032077
Investigador responsável
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2013/06/01 - 2017/06/30 Sound Localization by Neural Populations in the Rat Auditory Cortex
PCIG11-GA-2012-322339
Investigador responsável
European Union
Concluído
2013/01/01 - 2017/01/31 NeuroSeeker
ICT-2011-9-600925
Investigador responsável
Concluído
2012/09/01 - 2015/09/30 The Mechanistic Basis of Working Memory in Prefrontal cortical Circuits
RGY0089
Investigador responsável
Human Frontier Science Program
Concluído

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Steinfeld, Raphael; Joao Taçao-Monteiro; Renart, Alfonso. "Differential representation of sensory information and behavioral choice across layers of the mouse auditory cortex". Current Biology (2024):
    No prelo
  2. Reato, Davide; Steinfeld, Raphael; Tacão-Monteiro, André; Renart, Alfonso. "Response outcome gates the effect of spontaneous cortical state fluctuations on perceptual decisions". eLife 12 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.81774.
    10.7554/elife.81774
  3. Valente, Mafalda; Castiñeiras-de Saa, Juan R.; Renart, Alfonso; Pardo-Vazquez, Jose L.. "Ratphones: An Affordable Tool for Highly Controlled Sound Presentation in Freely Moving Rats". eneuro 10 5 (2023): ENEURO.0028-23.2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0028-23.2023.
    10.1523/eneuro.0028-23.2023
  4. Cazettes, Fanny; Mazzucato, Luca; Murakami, Masayoshi; Morais, Joao P.; Augusto, Elisabete; Renart, Alfonso; Mainen, Zachary F.. "A reservoir of foraging decision variables in the mouse brain". Nature Neuroscience 26 5 (2023): 840-849. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01305-8.
    10.1038/s41593-023-01305-8
  5. Cazettes, Fanny; Reato, Davide; Morais, João P.; Renart, Alfonso; Mainen, Zachary F.. "Phasic Activation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Increases Pupil Size". Current Biology 31 1 (2021): 192-197.e4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.090.
    10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.090
  6. Nicholas A. Steinmetz; Cagatay Aydin; Anna Lebedeva; Michael Okun; Marius Pachitariu; Marius Bauza; Maxime Beau; et al. "Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings". BioRxiv (in press in Science) (2020): https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.27.358291.
    10.1101/2020.10.27.358291
  7. Jose L. Pardo-Vazquez; Juan R. Castiñeiras-de Saa; Mafalda Valente; Iris Damião; Tiago Costa; M. Inês Vicente; André G. Mendonça; Zachary F. Mainen; Alfonso Renart. "The mechanistic foundation of Weber's law". Nature Neuroscience (2019): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0439-7.
    10.1038/s41593-019-0439-7
  8. Dmitry Kobak; Jose L Pardo-Vazquez; Mafalda Valente; Christian K Machens; Alfonso Renart. "State-dependent geometry of population activity in rat auditory cortex". eLife 8 (2019): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44526.
    10.7554/eLife.44526
  9. Renart, Alfonso. "Sensory integration dynamics in a hierarchical network explains choice probabilities in cortical area MT". Nature Communications (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7177.
    10.1038/ncomms7177
  10. Renart, Alfonso. "Bringing the Dynamics of Movement under Control". Neuron (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.06.002.
    10.1016/j.neuron.2014.06.002
  11. Renart, Alfonso. "Variability in neural activity and behavior". Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2014.02.013.
    10.1016/j.conb.2014.02.013
  12. Renart, Alfonso. "Recurrent networks learn to tell time". Nature Neuroscience (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3441.
    10.1038/nn.3441
  13. Renart, A.; van Rossum, M.C.W.. "Transmission of population-coded information". Neural Computation 24 2 (2012): 391-407. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856381794&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1162/NECO_a_00227
  14. Harris, K.D.; Bartho, P.; Chadderton, P.; Curto, C.; de la Rocha, J.; Hollender, L.; Itskov, V.; et al. "How do neurons work together? Lessons from auditory cortex". Hearing Research 271 1-2 (2011): 37-53. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78651096590&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.heares.2010.06.006
  15. Renart, A.; De La Rocha, J.; Bartho, P.; Hollender, L.; Parga, N.; Reyes, A.; Harris, K.D.. "The asynchronous state in cortical circuits". Science 327 5965 (2010): 587-590. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-75749100546&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1126/science.1179850
  16. Moreno-Bote, R.; Renart, A.; Parga, N.. "Theory of input spike auto- and cross-correlations and their effect on the response of Spiking Neurons". Neural Computation 20 7 (2008): 1651-1705. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47049115638&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1162/neco.2008.03-07-497
  17. Renart, A.; Moreno-Bote, R.; Wang, X.-J.; Parga, N.. "Mean-driven and fluctuation-driven persistent activity in recurrent networks". Neural Computation 19 1 (2007): 1-46. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845992188&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1162/neco.2007.19.1.1
  18. van Rossum, M.C.W.; Renart, A.. "Computation with populations codes in layered networks of integrate-and-fire neurons". Neurocomputing 58-60 (2004): 265-270. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2542428511&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.neucom.2004.01.054
  19. Renart, A.; Song, P.; Wang, X.-J.. "Robust spatial working memory through homeostatic synaptic scaling in heterogeneous cortical networks". Neuron 38 3 (2003): 473-485. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037566546&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00255-1
  20. Moreno, R.; De La Rocha, J.; Renart, A.; Parga, N.. "Response of spiking neurons to correlated inputs". Physical Review Letters 89 28 I (2002): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037207351&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. Renart, A.; Moreno, R.; De la Rocha, J.; Parga, N.; Rolls, E.T.. "A model of the IT-PF network in object working memory which includes balanced persistent activity and tuned inhibition". Neurocomputing 38-40 (2001): 1525-1531. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035383948&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00548-3
  22. Elliffe, M.C.M.; Rolls, E.T.; Parga, N.; Renart, A.. "A recurrent model of transformation invariance by association". Neural Networks 13 2 (2000): 225-237. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034001410&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0893-6080(99)00096-9
  23. Renart, A.; Parga, N.; Rolls, E.T.. "Backward projections in the cerebral cortex: Implications for memory storage". Neural Computation 11 6 (1999): 1349-1388. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033566443&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  24. Renart, A.; Parga, N.; Rolls, E.T.. "Associative memory properties of multiple cortical modules". Network: Computation in Neural Systems 10 3 (1999): 237-255. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0041408959&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Capítulo de livro
  1. Renart, Alfonso. "Mean-fieldtheoryofirregularlyspikingneuronal populations and working memory in recurrent cortical networks.". 2003.
    10.1201/9780203494462
Pré-impressão
  1. Castiñeiras, Juan R.; Renart, Alfonso. "Control Limited Perceptual Decision Making". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.24.497481.
    10.1101/2022.06.24.497481
Tese / Dissertação
  1. Renart, Alfonso. "Auditory decision making in mice: Behavioural characterisation and neural correlates in auditory cortex". Doutoramento, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, 2021.
  2. Renart, Alfonso. "Weber's Law and movement-correlates of decision confidence in human decision making". Mestrado, Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, 2021.
  3. Renart, Alfonso. "Inferring Causality in synchronised Chaotic Systems using Convergent Cross Mapping". Mestrado, Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, 2020.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.14916.14721
  4. Renart, Alfonso. "Optimal Decision Making For Temporally Extended Actions". Doutoramento, 2020.
  5. Renart, Alfonso. "Multiplexed simultaneous representations of cognitive and motor features, in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex, during a memory guided behavior". Doutoramento, 2019.
  6. Renart, Alfonso. "Disentangling multiple factors shaping the activity of mice prefrontal cortical neurons during Working Memory". Mestrado, Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, 2017.
  7. Renart, Alfonso. "Amplification in Cortical Circuits". Doutoramento, 2017.
  8. Renart, Alfonso. "Procedures towards auditory working memory tasks in head-fixed mice". Mestrado, Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, 2016.
  9. Renart, Alfonso. "Investigating Sources of Uncertainty in a Perceptual Decision-Making Task". Mestrado, Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, 2015.

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2019/11/01 The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics
(Antalya, Turquia)
2019/09/27 Reversal of the temporal relationship between neural activity and behavior as a signature of spatial decision making The Predictive Brain Conference
(Marseille, França)
2019/09/09 Bounded rationality in perceptual decision making Barcelona summer school for Ad- vanced Modelling of Behavior
(Barcelona, Espanha)
2019/07/17 State-dependence of low-dimensional population dynamics in local cortical circuits Work- shop on New Perspectives in Cortical Dynamics
Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) (Barcelona, Espanha)
2018/09/07 The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law Neurobucano
Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brasil)
2018/06/19 The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (Munich, Alemanha)
2017/09/20 Stimulus quality vs stimulus intensity in sensory discrimination Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics
(Capbreton, França)
2017/07/13 The cost of control in perceptual decision-making A midex: CompNeuro Days
INSERM (Marseille, França)
2017/07/06 Geometry and State-dependence of population codes in the rat auditory cortex
INSERM (Marseille, França)
2017/04/28 The Cost of Control in Perceptual Decision Making
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, Estados Unidos)
2017/03/30 The role of cognitive control to perceptual decision making
IDIBAPS (Barcelona, Espanha)
2016/12/06 Contributions of EI balance to the desynchronization of recurrent networks 20th Aniversary of Excitation-Inhibition Conference
(Mitzpe Ramon, Israel)
2016/09/28 Geometry and state-dependence of population codes in the rat auditory cortex PhD student Conference
(Freiburg, Alemanha)
2016/02/27 Transient competitive amplification during states of cortical activation COSYNE
(Salt Lake City, Estados Unidos)
2015/12/10 State-dependence of low-dimensional population dynamics in local cortical circuits
EPFL (Laussanne, Suiça)
2015/10/07 Comparing neural and behavioral accuracy for auditory discriminations
Insitute of Vision (Paris, França)
2015/06/04 Population dynamics during states of cortical activation Bernstein-Sparks Workshop Beyond mean field theory in the neurosciences
(Gottingen, Alemanha)
2014/12/25 Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits
Technion (Haifa, Israel)
2014/09/11 Excitatory-Inhibitory coupling in recurrent neural circuits Summer Course on Computational Neuroscience, Gottingen
(Gottingen, Alemanha)
2014/04/04 Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits
EPFL (Laussanne, Suiça)
2014/04/02 Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College (London, Reino Unido)
2014/03/19 Dynamics of cortical neuronal populations
Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/03/03 Excitatory-Inhibitory coupling in recurrent neural circuits COSYNE WORKSHOP Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Conductances: Functional Roles and Inference Methods
(Salt Lake City, Estados Unidos)
2014/02/10 Studying the dynamics of cortical circuits JORTEC
FCT/UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/09/24 Spontaneous dynamics of cortical circuits during activated states Bernstein Conference
(Tubingen, Alemanha)
2013/05/30 Competitive dynamics during spontaneous activity ESF workshop Noise in Decision Making
(Barcelona, Espanha)
2012/11/22 Does the variability of sensory neurons constrain the accuracy of perception?
EPFL (Laussanne, Suiça)
2012/11/21 Does the variability of sensory neurons constrain the accuracy of perception?
Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva (Geneva, Suiça)
2012/09/14 Variability of sensory neurons and the accuracy of perceptual choices
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/09/11 Neuronal variability and the accuracy of perception
Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, França)
2011/04/27 The temporal structure of population activity in cortical circuits Mathematical Neuroscience Workshop
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2011/04/04 Temporal correlations in recurrent neural networks with balanced excitation and inhibition
Banbury Center ( Cold Spring Harbor, Estados Unidos)
2010/06/30 Understanding spiking correlations in recurrent cortical circuits
Janelia Farm, HHMI (Ashburn, Estados Unidos)
2010/05/21 Spiking correlations in recurrent cortical circuits
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, Estados Unidos)
2010/03/19 Temporal correlations in recurrent cortical circuits
Harvard University (Boston, Estados Unidos)
2009/12/02 The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex Pan-Iberian Meeting on Systems Neuroscience
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/03/10 The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, Estados Unidos)
2009/02/27 The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex COSYNE
(Salt Lake City, Estados Unidos)
2008/10/03 Fast tracking of spontaneous excitatory fluctuations by recurrent inhibition desynchronises spiking activity in the cortex
Yale University (New Haven, Estados Unidos)
2007/09/04 A model of ramping neural activity for interval timing through derivative feedback Sym- posium on Neurobiological Basis of Timing and Anticipation
Yale University (New Haven, Estados Unidos)
2006/11/29 Population dynamics in the rat prefrontal cortex during timing behavior Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University (New York, Estados Unidos)
2006/06/02 Optimal propagation of population codes in feedforward networks
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, Estados Unidos)
2005/06/20 Biophysical Mechanisms of Gain Modulation Summer course of the Fundación Duques de Soria ”Brain mechanisms of attention: biological and computational approaches”
(Soria, Espanha)
2005/02/15 Robust scalar timing in recurrent networks through derivative feedback
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (London, Reino Unido)
2004/10/02 A robust mechanism for interval timing DDAYS: Segunda reunión de la red temática Dinámica no lineal en dimensión baja y atractores extraños
(La Manga del Mar Menor, Espanha)
2000/11/05 A model of the interaction between inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex in object working memory and visual search tasks 30th Annual Meeting of the SfN
(New Orleans, Estados Unidos)
2000/07/18 The neural mechanisms of working memory modelled by interacting associative memory networks Computational Neuroscience Conference, CNS
(Brugge, Bélgica)
1999/06/03 Connected cortical recurrent networks IWANN
(Alicante, Espanha)
1999/03/15 Multi-modular memory systems Statistical Physics of Neural Networks
(Dresden, Alemanha)

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2018/10/23 - 2018/10/25 Champalimaud Symposium. General co-chair (2018/10/23 - 2018/10/25)
Simpósio (Coorganizador)
 Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2017/02/27 - 2017/02/28 COSYNE Workshops. General co-chair (2017/02/27 - 2017/02/28)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
2016/02/28 - 2016/02/29 COSYNE Workshops. General co-chair (2016/02/28 - 2016/02/29)
Encontro (Coorganizador)
2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13 Satellite of FENS: "Dynamics of memory: What is the evidence?" (2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13)
Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)
2007/02/27 - 2007/02/27 COSYNE Workshop: "Decision Making" (2007/02/27 - 2007/02/27)
Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)

Outra distinção

2002 Neural Systems and Behavior Summer Course
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woodshole Sea Grant, Estados Unidos
1999 EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience