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 inference in multisensory integration of the brain Our brain is bombarded with sensory inputs from multiple sensory modalities that can be combined to form a […]
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 acquisition. Like humans learning to speak, male zebra finches learn to sing by memorizing a tutor’s song (TS) then vocally matching it in sequentially well-orchestrated […]
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 functions are spared. Neurophysiological studies have shown that OFC neurons fire in proportion to the value of anticipated outcomes. Thus, a central role of OFC […]
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 perhaps the most direct biological correlate of computation in brain networks. To capture these dynamics, our lab records spiking activity in groups of neurons […]
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 requires withholding or delaying our speech in order to hear others and avoid overlap. The ability of vocal turn-taking is exhibited by non-linguistic species as […]
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 neurons in one area can specifically communicate information to a subset of neurons in another area. I answer two questions: How is sensory information communicated […]
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, can provide especially informative insights into neuroanatomical diversity and how evolution has shaped the distinct features of the human brain. In this seminar, the similarities […]
Michael Stephen Beauchamp, Ph.D.Professor of NeurosurgeryVice Chair for Research, Dept of NeurosurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania TBD TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D.Rosenberg Family Assistant Professor of Brain ScienceAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human BehaviorBrown University TBD Faculty Host: Chris Fetsch
Tatiana Engel, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of NeurosciencePrinceton Neuroscience Institute TBD Faculty Host: Daeyeol Lee
