* System and circuit theories of information processing in the brain * Algorithmic models of working memory and cognition * Models of spike-based information processing in the regular circuit structure of the neocortical substrate * Purpose and function of oscillations (gamma, theta, alpha, beta frequencies) * Hippocampal mechanism and function in relation to the neocortex * Algorithmic models of learning and memory (LTP, LTD, STDP, neuronal circuits) * Information processing in the cortical visual system * Reinforcement learning, strategy planning, and policy execution in spiking networks * Information routing, dynamic configuration and perceptual organization * Integration of bottom-up and top-down information processing in perception * Dynamic interaction-driven models of perception, strategy, and action in the sensori-motor loop * World model formation, representation, and neural spike encoding