The Institute encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative work bringing together the traditional disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Combined study of the adaptive nature of artificial and biological systems facilitates the many benefits accruing from treating essentially the same problem from different perspectives.

Most of our research falls within the following broad areas:
 

Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics	Machine Learning	Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

We are a research institute in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.