Research Focus
My research concerns how complex cognitive and perceptual phenomena can arise from, and be regulated by, cellular and neural circuit properties. Primarily using the sense of smell (olfaction), my students, colleagues, and I ask how learning, memory, expectation, and like processes shape the transformations performed on sensory inputs within relatively peripheral (i.e., experimentally accessible) cortical circuitry, and how these different transformations in turn influence behavior and subsequent learning. We triangulate on these questions using a range of techniques including electrophysiology, pharmacology, behavior and behavior genetics, brain clearing and light-sheet imaging, and theoretical studies including biophysically constrained computational modeling and the development of neuromorphic algorithms for deployment in artificial intelligence systems.
In the news
- New Frontier Grants push boundaries in A&S research
- Smell and situation, entangled in our brains
- Researchers sniff out AI breakthroughs in mammal brains
- Six faculty honored with Weiss teaching awards
- Learning, memory, and the sense of smell
PSYCH Courses - Fall 2024
- PSYCH 2500 : Statistics and Research Design
- PSYCH 4700 : Undergraduate Research in Psychology
- PSYCH 4710 : Advanced Undergraduate Research in Psychology
- PSYCH 6271 : Topics in Biopsychology
- PSYCH 7000 : Research in Biopsychology
- PSYCH 9000 : Doctoral Thesis Research in Biopsychology
HD Courses - Fall 2024
- HD 4000 : Directed Readings
- HD 4010 : Empirical Research
- HD 4020 : Supervised Fieldwork
- HD 4030 : Teaching Assistantship