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 been assessing the behavioral, computational, and neural basis of value-based decisions, studying how we make choices to obtain physical reward. However, not all decisions are […]
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 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
