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Donald B. Katz - The Nonlinear Population Dynamics Underlying Taste Perception and ActionWe study the neural ensemble dynamics of sensori-motor processes in awake rodents, combining behavior, multi-neuronal electrophysiology, complex analysis and modeling, pharmacology and optogenetics…
From Katie Gentilello
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Gordon Berman - Themes and Variations in Animal BehaviorThe Berman lab uses theoretical, computational, and data-driven approaches to gain quantitative insight into entire repertoires of animal behaviors, aiming to make connections to the neurobiology,…
From Katie Gentilello
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Bradley Dickerson - Functionally Stratified Encoding in a Biological GyroscopeFlies 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…
From Katie Gentilello
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Cameron McIntyre - Connectomic Deep Brain StimulationDeep 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…
From Steven Marzec
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Chris Rodgers - Perception in Action: Neural Circuits for Active Auditory and Tactile Decision-makingHow 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…
From Steven Marzec
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Til Ole Bergmann - Combining Transcranial Brain Stimulation with Neuroimaging for State-dependent Stimulation and Causal Network InterrogationFunctional neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as well as electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), serve well to study…
From Steven Marzec
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Vivek Srinivasan - Scalable Human Brain Imaging with Time-of-flight Filtered Diffuse Optical InterferometryOur 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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A. Bolu Ajiboye - Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHab) Clinical TrialCortically 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…
From Steven Marzec
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Farzaneh Najafi - Cortical and cerebellar mechanisms underlying predictive processingPredictive 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…
From Steven Marzec
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Christos Padaimitriou - Towards Biologically Plausible IntelligenceThere 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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Marina Bedny - The role of cortical pluripotency in human cognitionHumans 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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Jeffrey Markowitz - Dopamine specifies the statistics of spontaneous behaviorSpontaneous 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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