Cyriel Pennartz

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Cyriel Pennartz
Born
Cyriel Marie Antoine Pennartz

(1963-10-07) 7 October 1963 (age 61)
Alma mater University of Amsterdam
Known for Memory,
circadian rhythm
perception
consciousness
AwardsUnilever Research Prize (1986)
Scientific career
Fields Systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience
Institutions University of Amsterdam
Doctoral advisor Fernando Lopes da Silva

Cyriel Marie Antoine Pennartz (born October 7, 1963) is a Dutch neuroscientist serving as professor and head of the Department of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1] He is known for his research on memory, motivation, circadian rhythms, perception [2] [3] and consciousness. [4] [5] Pennartz' work uses a multidisciplinary combination of techniques to understand the relationships between distributed neural activity and cognition, including in vivo electrophysiology and optical imaging, animal behavior and computational modelling.

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Career

Pennartz studied biology at Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Amsterdam with specializations in neurobiology, philosophy and computational neuroscience. He obtained his PhD degree in Neuroscience cum laude at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Fernando Lopes da Silva and Henk Groenewegen. His PhD project and follow-up research examined the physiology and plasticity of brain circuits involved in memory and motivation, focusing on the hippocampus and ventral striatum. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

He proceeded to work on computational models of reinforcement learning as a postdoctoral fellow in Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Physics of Computation of the California Institute of Technology with John Hopfield. [11] [12]

In 1994 he initiated research on the cellular electrophysiology of the brain's circadian clock as tenured group leader at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research. [13] [14]

He uncovered replay of reward information in the ventral striatum during sleep, using in vivo ensemble recordings made with tetrode arrays, a technique he introduced to the Netherlands in collaboration with Bruce McNaughton and Carol Barnes at the University of Arizona (Tucson, U.S.A.) [15] [16] [17]

In 2003 he was appointed professor in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, where he currently leads a group of ~35 people. His main goal is to advance our understanding of multisensory perception, [18] [19] [20] learning and memory [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] and consciousness [26] [27] by integrating experimental, theoretical and computational approaches to neuroscience. To achieve this, the group develops novel techniques for multi-area electrophysiology, [28] computer simulations of brain processes, [29] analytical tools [30] [31] and causal interventions. [32] Pennartz published a theory on consciousness known as Neurorepresentationalism. [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] Using predictive processing principles, [38] this theory characterizes conscious experience as a multimodally rich, spatially encompassing representation of one's world, including one's own body. Recently his work has been ramifying into the clinical domain, studying disorders of consciousness and memory, and into neurotechnology, developing new methods to combat consequences of stroke.

Leadership in science and education; honors and awards

At the University of Amsterdam, he co-develops curricula and courses in Psychobiology (Bachelor), Biomedical Sciences (Bachelor), Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Master) and founded the Master track Cognitive Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology. At the national level, he served for instance as co-leader of the National Science Agenda section on Brain, Behavior & Cognition (Neurolab.nl) with [Eveline Crone] and [Andrea Evers]. Since 2015, he joined the EU FET Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) [39] through an open call, and continues to lead HBP's Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience Research. Representing these disciplines, he was elected member of the main governing body of HBP, the Scientific and Infrastructure Board. Pennartz received various awards, grants and honours, for example:

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam". 16 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (March 24, 2021). "Waar ben ik?" [Where am I?]. VPRO Gids (Dutch magazine) (Interview). Interviewed by Hans van Wetering. p. 30. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  3. ↑ Makri, Elina (May 28, 2021). "What makes people act irrationally?". Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Irish public broadcaster). Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  4. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (June 2, 2021). "Wij zijn meer dan ons brein" [We are more than our brain]. VPRO Gids (Dutch magazine) (Interview). Interviewed by Bennie Mols. p. 28. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  5. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (June 19, 2021). "'Wij leven in een gezonde hallucinatie'" ['We live in a healthy hallucination']. NRC Handelsblad (Dutch newspaper) (Interview). Interviewed by Hendrik Spiering. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; Groenewegen, H. J.; Lopes da Silva, F. H. (1994). "The nucleus accumbens as a complex of functionally distinct neuronal ensembles: an integration of behavioural, electrophysiological and anatomical data" . Prog. Neurobiol. 42 (6): 719–761. doi:10.1016/0301-0082(94)90025-6. PMID   7938546. S2CID   27698282.
  7. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; Ameerun, R. F.; Lopes da Silva, F. H. (1993). "Synaptic plasticity in an in vitro slice preparation of the rat nucleus accumbens". Eur. J. Neurosci. 5 (2): 107–117. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.1993.tb00475.x. PMID   7903183. S2CID   38195220.
  8. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; Kitai, S. T. (1991). "Hippocampal inputs to identified neurons in an in vitro slice preparation of the rat nucleus accumbens: evidence for feed-forward inhibition". J. Neurosci. 11 (9): 2838–2847. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.11-09-02838.1991. PMC   6575237 . PMID   1679123.
  9. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; Ito, R.; Verschure, P. F.; Battaglia, F. P.; Robbins, T.W. (2011). "The hippocampal-striatal axis in learning, prediction and goal-directed behavior". Trends Neurosci. 34 (10): 548–559. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2011.08.001. PMID   21889806. S2CID   10304061.
  10. ↑ Taverna, S.; Van Dongen, Y. C.; Groenewegen, H. J.; Pennartz, C. M. (2004). "Direct physiological evidence for synaptic connectivity between medium-sized spiny neurons in rat nucleus accumbens in situ". J. Neurophysiol. 91 (3): 1111–1121. doi:10.1152/jn.00892.2003. PMID   14573550.
  11. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (1997). "Reinforcement learning by Hebbian synapses with adaptive thresholds". Neuroscience. 81 (2): 303–319. doi:10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00118-8. PMID   9300423. S2CID   42929297.
  12. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (1995). "The ascending neuromodulatory systems in learning by reinforcement: comparing computational conjectures with experimental findings". Brain Res Rev. 21 (3): 219–245. doi:10.1016/0165-0173(95)00014-3. PMID   8806015. S2CID   29093094.
  13. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; De Jeu, M. T.; Bos, N. P.; Schaap, J.; Geurtsen, A. M. (2002). "Diurnal modulation of pacemaker potentials and calcium current in the mammalian circadian clock". Nature. 416 (6878): 286–290. doi:10.1038/nature728. PMID   11875398. S2CID   4420946.
  14. ↑ De Jeu, M.; Pennartz, C. (2002). "Circadian modulation of GABA function in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus: excitatory effects during the night phase". J. Neurophysiol. 87 (2): 834–844. doi:10.1152/jn.00241.2001. PMID   11826050.
  15. ↑ Lansink, C. S.; Goltstein, P. M.; Lankelma, J. V.; McNaughton, B. L.; Pennartz, C. M. (2009). "Hippocampus leads ventral striatum in replay of place-reward information". PLOS Biology. 7 (8) e1000173. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000173 . PMC   2717326 . PMID   19688032.
  16. ↑ Pennartz, C. M.; Lee, E.; Verheul, J.; Lipa, P.; Barnes, C. A.; McNaughton, B. L. (2004). "The ventral striatum in off-line processing: ensemble reactivation during sleep and modulation by hippocampal ripples". J. Neurosci. 24 (29): 6446–6456. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0575-04.2004. PMC   6729862 . PMID   15269254.
  17. ↑ Lansink, C. S.; Goltstein, P. M.; Lankelma, J. V; Joosten, R. N. J. M. A.; McNaughton, B. L.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2008). "Preferential reactivation of motivationally relevant information in the ventral striatum". J. Neurosci. 28 (25): 6372–6382. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1054-08.2008. PMC   3844781 . PMID   18562607.
  18. ↑ Meijer, G. T.; Marchesi, P.; Mejias, J. F.; Montijn, J. S.; Lansink, C. S.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2020). "Neural correlates of multisensory detection behavior: comparison of primary and higher-order visual cortex". Cell Rep. 31 (6) 107636. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107636 . hdl: 11245.1/bb562c7a-68a7-411d-a4d4-f180b1806f85 . PMID   32402272. S2CID   218635746.
  19. ↑ Montijn, J. S.; Goltstein, P. M.; Pennartz, C. M. (2015). "Mouse V1 population correlates of visual detection rely on heterogeneity within neuronal response patterns". eLife. 4 e10163. doi: 10.7554/eLife.10163 . PMC   4739777 . PMID   26646184.
  20. ↑ Montijn, J. S.; Meijer, G. T.; Lansink, C. S.; Pennartz, C. M. (2016). "Population-level neural codes are robust to single-neuron variability from a multidimensional coding perspective". Cell Rep. 16 (9): 2486–2498. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.07.065 . PMID   27545876.
  21. ↑ Goltstein, P. M.; Coffey, E. B.; Roelfsema, P. R.; Pennartz, C. M. (2013). "In vivo two-photon Ca2+ imaging reveals selective reward effects on stimulus-specific assemblies in mouse visual cortex". J. Neurosci. 33 (28): 11540–11555. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1341-12.2013. PMC   6618686 . PMID   23843524.
  22. ↑ Goltstein, P. M.; Meijer, G. T.; Pennartz, C. M. (2018). "Conditioning sharpens the spatial representation of rewarded stimuli in mouse primary visual cortex". eLife. 7 e37683. doi: 10.7554/eLife.37683 . PMC   6141231 . PMID   30222107.
  23. ↑ Daselaar, S. M.; Huijbers, W.; De Jonge, M.; Goltstein, P. M.; Pennartz, C.M. (2010). "Experience-dependent alterations in conscious resting state activity following perceptuomotor learning". Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 93 (3): 422–427. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2009.12.009. PMID   20045076. S2CID   2797255.
  24. ↑ Lansink, C. S.; Jackson, J. C.; Lankelma, J. V.; Ito, R.; Robbins, T. W.; Everitt, B. J.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2012). "Reward cues in space: commonalities and differences in neural coding by hippocampal and ventral striatal ensembles". J. Neurosci. 32 (36): 12444–12459. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0593-12.2012. PMC   3492752 . PMID   22956836.
  25. ↑ Van Wingerden, M.; Vinck, M.; Lankelma, J. V.; Pennartz, C. M. (2010). "Learning-associated gamma-band phase-locking of action-outcome selective neurons in orbitofrontal cortex". J. Neurosci. 30 (30): 10025–10038. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0222-10.2010. PMC   6633375 . PMID   20668187.
  26. ↑ Goltstein, P. M.; Montijn, J. S.; Pennartz, C. M. (2015). "Effects of isoflurane anesthesia on ensemble patterns of Ca2+ activity in mouse V1: reduced direction selectivity independent of increased correlations in cellular activity". PLOS ONE. 10 (2) e0118277. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1018277G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118277 . PMC   4338011 . PMID   25706867.
  27. ↑ Olcese, U.; Bos., J. J.; Vinck, M.; Lankelma, J. V.; Van Mourik-Donga, L. B.; Schlumm, F.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2016). "Spike-based functional connectivity in cerebral cortex and hippocampus: loss of global connectivity is coupled to preservation of local connectivity during non-REM sleep". J. Neurosci. 36 (29): 7676–7692. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4201-15.2016. PMC   6705553 . PMID   27445145.
  28. ↑ Bos, J. J.; Vinck, M.; Van Mourik-Donga, L. A.; Jackson, J. C.; Witter, M. P.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2017). "Perirhinal firing patterns are sustained across large spatial segments of the task environment". Nat. Commun. 8 15602. Bibcode:2017NatCo...815602B. doi:10.1038/ncomms15602. PMC   5458559 . PMID   28548084.
  29. ↑ Dora, S.; Pennartz, C.; Bohte, S. (2018). "A Deep Predictive Coding Network for Inferring Hierarchical Causes Underlying Sensory Inputs". Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 11141. pp. 457–467. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01424-7_45. ISBN   978-3-030-01423-0. S2CID   52913055.
  30. ↑ Vinck, M.; Battaglia, F. P.; Womelsdorf, T.; Pennartz, C. (2012). "Improved measures of phase-coupling between spikes and the local field potential". J. Comput. Neurosci. 33 (1): 53–75. doi:10.1007/s10827-011-0374-4. PMC   3394239 . PMID   22187161.
  31. ↑ Vinck, M.; Oostenveld, R.; Van Wingerden, M.; Battaglia, F.; Pennartz, C. M. (2011). "An improved index of phase synchronization for electrophysiological data in the presence of volume-conduction, noise and sample-size bias". NeuroImage. 55 (4): 1548–1565. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.055. hdl: 2066/115486 . PMID   21276857. S2CID   4933951.
  32. ↑ Van Wingerden, M.; Vinck, M.; Tijms, V.; Ferreira, I. R. S.; Jonker, A. J.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2012). "NMDA receptors control cue-outcome selectivity and plasticity of orbitofrontal firing patterns during associative stimulus-reward learning". Neuron. 76 (4): 813–825. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.039 . PMID   23177965. S2CID   4065341.
  33. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (2015). The brain's representational power - on consciousness and the integration of modalities. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-02931-5.
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  35. ↑ Olcese, U.; Oude Lohuis, M. N.; Pennartz, C. M. A. (2018). "Sensory processing across conscious and nonconscious brain states: from single neurons to distributed networks for inferential representation". Front. Syst. Neurosci. 12: 49. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2018.00049 . PMC   6193318 . PMID   30364373.
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  37. ↑ Pennartz, C. M. A. (2021). De code van het bewustzijn (The code of consciousness; in Dutch). Prometheus. ISBN   978-90-446-3191-3.
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