Ilya Monosov, Ph.D.Associate Professor of NeuroscienceWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Neurobiology of Curiosity Over the past few decades, the highly active fields of neuroethology and neuroeconomics have […]
Ione Fine, Ph.D.Professor, Department of PsychologyAffiliate Professor, Radiology and OphthalmologyUniversity of Washington TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Yoshinori Aso, Ph.D.Group LeaderHHMI Janelia Research Campus TBD Faculty host: Ernst Niebur
Wenhao Zhang, PhD.Assistant Professor & Lupe Murchison Foundation Scholar in Medical ResearchLyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics & Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain InstituteUT Southwestern Medical Center Towards a theory of causal […]
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorNeuronal Mechanism for Critical Period UnitOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology Transient auditory-motor projections subserving developmental song learning Memory recall and guidance is essential for motor skill […]
Joni Wallis, Ph.D.Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Hippocampal contributions to value-based decision-making People with damage to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) have specific problems making decisions, whereas their other cognitive […]
Matthew Chafee, Ph.D.Professor, Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of Minnesota Medical School Cognitive flexibility and neural communication patterns in monkey prefrontal networks Synaptic interactions mediate the exchange of information between neurons that is […]
Daniela Vallentin, Ph.D.Research Group LeaderMax Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Neural mechanisms of vocal learning and production in songbirds During conversations we rapidly switch between listening and speaking which often […]
Kari Hoffman, Ph.D.Associate Professor of PsychologyVanderbilt University TBD TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Xaq Pitkow, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorNeuroscience Institute & Dept of Machine LearningCarnegie Mellon University TBD TBD Faculty Host: Andrew Gordus
Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.Adjunct Associate Research ScientistZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior InstituteDepartment of NeuroscienceColumbia University The Neural Basis of Cognitive Flexibility in Primates A major challenge in neuroscience is to understand how […]
Chet Sherwood, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Anthropology& GW Mind-Brain InstituteGeorge Washington University Great Apes and Models of Human Brain Evolution Studying the brains of our closest living relatives, the great apes, […]
