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Flies are among nature’s most agile flying creatures. This exquisite maneuverability is due in part to their possession of specialized mechanosensory organs known as the halteres. The halteres…
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Bradley Dickerson Date
October 2nd, 2023
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established clinical therapy for the treatment of movement disorders, and evolving to become a viable clinical option for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. In…
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Cameron McIntyre Date
April 24th, 2023
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How do we explore and learn about our world? In nature, animals do not passively await stimuli, as they typically must do in the laboratory. Instead, they actively seek out sensory…
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Chris Rodgers Date
April 17th, 2023
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Functional neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as well as electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), serve well to study…
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Til Ole Bergmann Date
March 27th, 2023
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Our group develops new light-based technologies for in vivo imaging and sensing of the brain and eye, with the goal of understanding what goes wrong in disease and detecting it earlier. Starting with…
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Vivek Srinivasan Date
March 6th, 2023
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Cristopher Niell Date
February 27th, 2023
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Cortically controlled neuroprostheses have long been posited as the “holy grail” for intracortical brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). The efficacy of BMIs has advanced to the point where a…
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A. Bolu Ajiboye Date
February 14th, 2022
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Predictive coding is a theory of brain function that assumes the brain contains an internal model of the world, which constantly generates predictions about our environment, and updates the…
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Farzaneh Najafi Date
February 6th, 2023
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Marla Feller Date
January 30th, 2023
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There is no doubt that cognition and intelligence are the results of neural activity - but how, exactly? How do molecules, neurons, and synapses give rise to reasoning, language, plans, stories, art,…
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Christos Padaimitriou Date
January 23rd, 2023
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Humans are unique among animals not only in
their shared cognitive capacities but also in their remarkable adaptability to
diverse environments. Studies with people born blind provide insights into…
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Marina Bedny Date
December 5th, 2022
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Spontaneous animal behavior is built from action
modules that are concatenated by the brain into sequences. However, the neural
mechanisms that shape the composition of self-motivated behavior…
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Jeffrey Markowitz Date
November 21st, 2022
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Proprioception, the sense of self-movement and
body position, is critical for the effective control of motor behavior. Humans
lacking proprioceptive feedback, such as patients with peripheral nerve…
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John Tuthill Date
November 7th, 2022
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Assembly of inhibitory and excitatory neurons into networks represents a critical period in the development of the cerebral cortex during which early principles of circuit formation and function are…
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Fikri Birey Date
October 24th, 2022
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Despite breathtaking advances in ML, and in our understanding of the brain at the level of neurons, synapses, and neural circuits, we lack a satisfactory explanation for the brain's performance…
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Santosh Vempala Date
September 19th, 2022
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Animals constantly modify their behavior through experience. Flexible behavior is key to our ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment. My laboratory is interested in studying the activity of…
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Takaki Komiyama Date
September 12th, 2022
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