Day 2: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS)

Topic: Laying the Foundation for a New Data and Knowledge Ecosystem
The NIH BRAIN Initiative Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program seeks to develop new tools and approaches to enable a more comprehensive mechanistic understanding of the brain basis of behavior across species and environments. The development and validation of next-generation tools, methods, and analytic approaches to precisely quantify complex behaviors and combine them with simultaneous recordings of brain activity in a range of environments will generate vast amounts of multi-modal and high-dimensionality data. To transform these data into knowledge that can advance the field of brain health, a new ecosystem for data archives, data coordination, novel ontologies, data standards, AI-informed approaches, and neuroethical frameworks will need to be developed. Laying the foundation for this new data ecosystem for brain-behavior discovery will be aided through the development of a transdisciplinary consortium of researchers. This session represents the kick-off of the BBQS Consortium activities to build this foundation.