Interim Director, Cognition & Neural Systems Graduate Program
Associate Professor, Cognition & Neural Systems
Director, Decision Making and Learning Laboratory
Research Interests:
- Understanding how the coordinated activities of groups of neurons and the release of dopamine in the brain contribute to learning, memory consolidation during sleep, and navigation.
- Exploring how communication between neurons is disrupted in aging and Parkinson’s disease.
- Development of novel instrumentation for visualizing and modulating brain activity, measuring dopamine release, and quantifying behavior to further the above research objectives.
