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Systems and Computational Neuroscience faculty

Martin S. Banks Professor (Vision Science) Visual space perception, psychophysics, modeling of vision, virtual reality.

Shaowen Bao Assistant Adjunct Professor (Neuroscience) Our research goal is to understand sensory processing.

George Bentley Assistant Professor (Integrative Biology) Neural integration and transduction of environmental cues into endocrine signals.

Jose Carmena Assistant Professor (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Cognitive Science) Brain-machine interfaces; neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control and learning; neural ensemble computation; neuroprosthetics.

Yang Dan Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Processing and computation of visual information in the thalamus and cortex.

Michael R. DeWeese Assistant Professor (Physics, Neuroscience) Auditory sensory processing in cortex; cortical mechanisms of selective attention.

Dan Feldman Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology) Plasticity and sensory processing of whisker input in rodent somatosensory cortex.

Darlene Francis Assistant Professor (Psychology, Public Health) Behavioral neuroscience, developmental psychobiology, animal models, stress, maternal care, gene-environment interaction.

Ralph Freeman Professor (Vision Science) Function, development, and plasticity of central visual pathways.

Lucia Jacobs Associate Professor (Psychology) Evolution and ecology of cognition, in particular spatial memory, navigation and reasoning.

William J. Jagust Professor (Neuroscience, Public Health) Structural and functional imaging of aging and dementia.

Lance Kriegsfeld Assistant Professor (Psychology) Genetic, cellular, and hormonal mechanisms responsible for the temporal control of motivated behaviors and their underlying physiology.

Bruno Olshausen Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Vision Science) Computational models of perception.

Mu-Ming Poo Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Mechanisms of axon guidance; synaptic plasticity.

Michael Silver Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Vision Science) Neural correlates of human visual perception and attention.

Friedrich T. Sommer Associate Adjunct Professor (Neuroscience) Models of associative memory, sensory processing.

Frederic Theunissen Associate Professor (Psychology) Neural mechanisms underlying complex sound recognition.

Jonathan Wallis Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Psychology) Neuronal mechanisms of goal-directed behavior.