Graduate Student

Marvin Leathers

Room: Mellon Institute, 115Q

Phone: 412-268-6414

Mentor: Dr. Carl Olson

mll27@pitt.edu

Prior Degree:

BA & BS, Samford University(2005)

Focus:

Cortical mechanisms of value-based decision making in monkeys.

Publications:

Leathers, M. L. and C. R. Olson. Response to comment on “In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value”. Science, 340(6131): 430, 2013.

Leathers, M. L. and Olson, C.R. In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value. Science, 338(6103): 132-35, 2012.