• Institute for Neural Computation

    INC is committed to worldwide leadership in its research, and to contribute with industrial partners and the broader community in applying research advances to the benefit of society.

  • Virtual Reality Escape Room

    Our Virtual Reality (VR) facility is equipped with an Immersive VR system, combined with a 256-channel EEG recording system as well as an Active Optical tracking system for real time tracking of the experimental subjects. (Tzyy-Ping Jung's Lab)

Welcome to INC

The Institute for Neural Computation (INC) is an organized research unit of the University of California San Diego with 44 researchers representing 14 research disciplines, devoted to the research and development of a new generation of massively parallel computers through a coherent and cohesive plan of research spanning the areas of neuroscience, visual science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, economics and social science, and computer engineering. View the affiliated faculty list.

What's New


Terry Sejnowski

Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D., wins Brain Prize (2024) 

The award recognizes trio for their pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience.

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Gert Cauwenberghs, Ph.D.

In-ear monitoring of brain states

Research featured on the cover of nature biomedical engineering (Xu et al., 2023)

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John Iversen

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