Animal Behavior seeks to understand why animals behave the way they do. Advances in understanding the underlying mechanisms, from the reception and processing of input signals to the effectors of animal behavior, can help to better...
Project Summary: Movement requires neuronal circuits to integrate incoming signals and generate output commands. The motor superior colliculus, an evolutionarily conserved midbrain structure, receives extensive inputs from higher-order motor centers and...
Gastroparesis is a debilitating disorder characterized by delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction, leading to nausea, vomiting, early satiety, bloating, and abdominal pain. Existing drugs have failed to...
Project summary: A family of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) currently best explains primate ventral visual stream activity that supports object recognition. Such models are often evaluated with neurobehavioral datasets where the stimuli are...
Project summary: The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs from the brain down through the spine and is responsible for carrying messages between the brain and the rest of the body, allowing for movement, sensation, and organ function. When the...
Project Summary: Occupying close to a third of the average person's lifetime, sleep is paramount for human functioning and well-being. Lack of sleep can not only adversely impact cognition and performance through decreased alertness, but...
Project Summary: The project aims to provide visual motion training while delivering non-invasive neurostimulation, more specifically transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), in the occipital region of cortically blind patients. Previous work...
Project Summary: The human brain has always intrigued the global community. Unfortunately, the lack of adequate experimental models has hindered our understanding of human brain development. Indeed, animal models are not suitable to study the human...
Project Summary: Efforts to highlight salient acoustic parameters for identity perception were inefficacious. Conversely, we can relatively characterize specific acoustic correlates when studying the perception of other social signals (e...
