Alice Cronin-Golomb
Prof. Cronin-Golomb conducts research on visual factors influencing high-order cognitive capacities in normal aging and age-related neurological disease, with special emphasis on object identification in Alzheimer’s disease and visuospatial function in Parkinson’s disease. Her work is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NIH). Prof. Cronin-Golomb’s students and research associates are conducting […]
Rachel Denison
How does the brain generate our ongoing perceptual experience? The Denison Lab studies visual perception, attention, and decision making, with a focus on temporal dynamics. The lab’s research integrates behavioral measurements (psychophysics, eye tracking), neural measurements (fMRI, EEG/MEG), and computational modeling.
Stephen Grossberg
Prof. Grossberg develops brain models of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language; development; attentive learning and memory; cognitive information processing and social cognition; reinforcement learning and motivation; cognitive-emotional interactions; navigation; sensory-motor control and robotics; and mental disorders. These models involve many parts of the brain, ranging from perception to action, and multiple […]
Michael Hasselmo
Research in the Hasselmo Laboratory concerns the cortical dynamics of memory-guided behavior, including effects of neuromodulation and theta rhythm oscillations in cortical function. Neurophysiological techniques are used to analyze intrinsic and synaptic properties of cortical circuits in rodents and to explore the effects of modulators on these properties. Computational modeling is used to link these […]
Marc Howard
We develop mathematical models of cognition and evaluate them against both behavioral and neurophysiological data, providing a bridge between cognition and systems-level neuroscience. We use a combination of mathematical, computational and behavioral tools to evaluate our hypotheses. The topics we investigate are centered on episodic memory, the ability we have to remember specific events situated […]
Mark Howe
My laboratory seeks to identify neural circuit principles responsible for adaptively motivating, selecting, and learning actions in changing environments. We focus on the basal ganglia, a set of brain regions implicated in regulating motor and cognitive functions on multiple timescales. A range of techniques are employed including two-photon microscopy, fiber photometry, and electrophysiology in behaving […]
Kathleen Kantak
Prof. Kantak’s current research focuses on cognitive aspects of addiction-related behavior. Her overall goal is to conduct translational research using trans-species behavioral models of cognition and drug abuse and to interface her work with that of neurobiologists to understand mechanisms and with that of clinicians to improve drug addiction treatment outcomes. Using intravenous drug self-administration […]
Melissa Kibbe
Prof. Kibbe’s research focuses on how infants, children, and adults represent information about objects (e.g. perceptual features, animacy, group statistics, numerosity, verbal labels). Prof. Kibbe’s lab also looks at the kinds of computations we can do with these representations, the ways in which we use these representations to guide behavior, and how cognitive systems (such […]
Sam Ling
The glut of information available for the brain to process at any given moment necessitates an efficient attentional system that can “pick and choose” what relevant information receives prioritized processing. Interestingly, a growing body of work suggests that one powerful way that attention separates the wheat from the chaff is by altering some of the […]
Joe McGuire
My lab studies the cognitive and neural processes that facilitate human decision making. We are especially interested in how decision makers navigate challenging situations that involve delay, uncertainty, or volatility, or that seem to demand self-control. Our methodological toolbox includes behavioral experiments, computational modeling, psychophysiology, and functional neuroimaging.