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We are a freestanding institute at Johns Hopkins University that seeks to understand how the brain processes information about the world to generate perception, knowledge, memory, decision, and action.

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September 15, 2025September 15, 2025

Knierim Lab Publishes New Study on Phase Coding in Virtual Reality

MBI and Neuroscience Program graduate student Yotaro Sueoka of the Knierim Lab published a first-author paper in Nature Neuroscience on how the phenomenon of theta phase precession in the hippocampus […]

September 17, 2024September 18, 2024

MBI Laboratory Publishes Navigation Study in Nature Neuroscience

The Knierim Lab of MBI, in collaboration with the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems Lab of Noah Cowan of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, published a study in Nature […]

September 23, 2023November 1, 2024

Lab publishes study on the neural mechanism of action suppression during perceptual decision making

Former graduate student Max Shinn, co-supervised by Daeyeol Lee at MBI and John Murray at Yale University, published a paper in Nature Communications providing an important insight into the neural […]

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