DYNS Faculty

Interactions between the neocortex, thalamus, and extended hippocampal formation that subserve spatial cognition and mnemonic processes.

Computational Vision, Computational Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Human-Computer Interaction.

Mathematical models of artificial and biological recurrent neural networks. Biologically plausible neuronal circuits. Oscillatory dynamics and its functionality.

Cognitive neuroscience, learning, memory, categorization, decision processes in perception and cognition.

How biological organisms and artificial intelligent agents visually sense the world and make decisions.

Visual attention; Cognitive neuroscience; Brain Imaging; Exercise physiology.

The Goard lab focuses on how the mammalian neocortex processes and stores incoming sensory information.

Professor Grafton is interested in how people organize movement into goal-oriented action.

spatial thinking in complex activities such as comprehension, reasoning, problem solving and navigation.

Uses brain imaging and endocrinology to determine the impact of sex steroid hormones on brain morphology and function.

Spatial and temporal organization of stochastic axon systems in the brain.

Neural circuits of associative learning, motivation, and decision-making.

Neural circuit dynamics and behavior; navigation; neural mechanisms of stimulus selection and decision-making.

Molecular and genetic perspectives on neuro-development, evolution, plasticity and degeneration

Combining theory and experimentation to understand how navigational decisions arise from neural-circuit computation.

Next-generation wireless communication, sensing and inference; Robust, neuro-inspired machine learning.

Research in Reproducible Computer Vision, Image Forensics and Deep Learning

Statistical Methods and Data Analyses, Including For Brain Imaging and Other Neuroscience Data.

Dr. Miller is interested in the psychological and neural processes underlying human memory and decision-making.

Modeling, dynamics, & control of neural populations; application to neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Molecular and cellular basis of animal behavior in flies and mosquitoes.

Systems neuroscience, neuroethology, genetics. Dissecting neural circuits that control a motor sequence in fruit flies.

Data-centric modeling of systems and focusing on development of new methods to be applied to real-world applications.

The role of active dendrites in nonlinear modes of synaptic integration.

Exploring neural circuitry and illuminating its function, using new neurotechnology.

Primary areas: The mechanisms of neural tube closure in Xenopus and Ciona; Behavior and neural circuity in Ciona.

Testing how the brain encodes and transforms neural representations of sensory information to guide behavioral goals.

The Media Neuroscience Lab investigates complex cognitive responses to mass communication and mediated narratives with an emphasis on the neural mechanisms of moral conflict, persuasion, media violence, cognitive control, and flow experiences.