studies how neural systems encode for motivation and behavioral flexbility using in vivo recordings of neural activity within rat based reward-learning tasks.
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Dr. Camilla Bellone
studies molecular, synaptic and circuit level mechanisms underlying social behaviors and reward processing
Dr. Farzaneh Najafi
studies cortical and cerebellar mechanisms underlying predictive processing using electrophysiological and optical methods in awake behaving mice.
Dr. Jennifer Bizley
studies how neuronal activity in the auditory cortex shapes our perception of the outside world
Dr. Helen Schwerdt
develops and applies new tools to study neurochemical signaling in learning and disease.
Dr. Malavika Murugan
studies social recognition and social decision making, and how social and non-social rewards are differentially encoded in the brain.
Dr. Z Yan Wang
studies the neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death
Dr. Maria Diehl
studies the neural mechanisms of how social interactions influence fear and avoidance behaviors
Dr. Caroline Palavicino-Maggio
studies neural circuits of aggression and their perturbations in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Rudy Behnia
studies how internal state influences the circuit-level computation of color and motion information in the fly visual system
Dr. Maya Opendak
studies how stress affects social behavior and the brain to identify targets for therapeutic intervention
Dr. Marlene Cohen
studies how visual information is encoded in neurons and used to guide behavior
Dr. Nancy Padilla Coreano
studies the neural circuits underlying social competence behaviors
Dr. Sheena Josselyn
studies the neural substrates of memory (engrams) and applies this research to both substance abuse and learning and memory disorders
Dr. Athena Akrami
studies how we unconsciously learn from the environment
Dr. Denise Cai
studies the neural mechanisms of memory and develops open source tools for neuroscience
Dr. Anne Churchland
studies the neural circuits and computations underlying decision-making
Dr. Kerry Walker
studies the neural encoding of complex sound features in auditory cortex, and its relation to perception and decision-making
Dr. Ream Al-Hasani
studies the neurocircuitry of addiction, stress and pain
Dr. Beth Buffalo
studies the neural mechanisms of learning and memory