Funded Awards

Understanding how different parts of the brain communicate is perhaps the most fundamental question of neuroscience because it is at the heart of understanding all brain functions and disorders.

Tracking fast unpredictable movements is a valuable skill, applicable in many situations. In the animal kingdom, the context includes the action of a predator chasing its prey that is running and dodging at high speeds, like a cheetah chasing a gazelle.

Humans and other animals can choose their actions using multiple learning algorithms and decision­ making strategies.

Real-time neural decoding centers on predicting behavior variables based on neural activity data, where the prediction is performed at a pace that reliably keeps up with the speed of the activity that is being monitored.

Dopamine (DA) neurons are fundamental to many aspects of behavior, and dysfunction of the DA system contributes to a wide range of disorders, including drug addiction. How does DA contribute to such a diversity of functions and dysfunctions?

A fundamental goal for understanding the brain and mammalian and human intelligence, and to understand how processing goes awry in genetic and developmental diseases, is to understand the principles of operation of cerebral cortex.

There is a fundamental gap in our understanding of the computational principles and neural mechanisms by which neural circuits represent complex objects like faces.

Sleep is critical to memory and learning.

We are pleased with the progress we are making in this "team building" R24 grant which our group received through the NIH BRAIN Initiative. We have been informed that ours is the only group within the NIH IRP to have received such an award.