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LA JOLLA\u2014Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski<\/a> has been awarded the 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize by the Gruber Foundation for his \u201cpioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.\u201d He shares the $500,000 award with Larry Abbott of Columbia University, Emery Neal Brown of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Haim Sompolinsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTerry is a trailblazer who has revolutionized the field of computational neuroscience,\u201d says Salk President Rusty Gage<\/a>. \u201cHe has created novel computational models to better understand brain function, which may aid researchers in developing new therapies for neurological disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sejnowski, who is head of Salk\u2019s Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and a distinguished professor at UC San Diego, has helped shape fields of neuroeconomics, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology and artificial intelligence. In 1985, while at Johns Hopkins University, he collaborated with computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton to invent the Boltzmann machine, the first algorithm to solve the problem of learning in multilayered neural networks. It remains the most biologically plausible of all subsequent learning algorithms for artificial neural networks.<\/p>\n

Soon after announcing the Boltzmann machine, Sejnowski created NETtalk, a computer program that, like the human brain, was able to learn how to turn written text into speech. Not only was this an astounding engineering accomplishment but it also marked a major cultural milestone as it raised new challenges for philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science.<\/p>\n

Sejnowski also helped develop the first unsupervised learning algorithm for independent component analysis, which is now a mainstay in brain imaging. He has also shown that sleep spindles (brain wave patterns during nonrapid eye movement sleep) are not synchronous across the cortex, as was previously believed, but instead create circular traveling waves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored to receive the Gruber Prize as a recognition of my work,\u201d says Sejnowski, holder of the Francis Crick Chair at Salk. \u201cMy hope is that this research will deepen our understanding of how the brain learns and of how memory is affected in disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sejnowski has received numerous other awards, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Frank Rosenblatt Award, Neural Network Pioneer Award, Hebb Prize and Wright Prize. 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