CNUP: Center for Neuroscience

Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive

Carey D. Balaban
Anatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry of vestibular function.
Aaron Batista
Sensory-motor integration and neural prosthetics
Marlene Behrmann
Visual cognition in normal and brain-damaged humans.
Charles W. Bradberry
Understanding the cognitive consequences of drug addiction at the structural and cellular levels in primates.
J. Patrick Card
Functional organization of hypothalamus and central autonomic networks.
Raymond Y. Cho
Neuroimaging studies of cognitive control in healthy and psychiatric populations.
Marlene Cohen
Using attention to study cortical population codes
Carol L. Colby
Cortical mechanisms of memory, attention, and spatial representation in primates.
Brent Doiron
Theoretical investigations of the impact of neural variability on sensory processing.
Yan Dong
Cellular and circuitry mechanisms underlying pathological neural plasticity
Kirk I. Erickson
Neuroimaging and cognitive studies of age and health.
G. Bard Ermentrout
Applications of mathematics to biological systems.
Julie A. Fiez
Neuroimaging and behavioral studies of language, working memory, motivation, and learning.
Neeraj J. Gandhi
Neural control of coordinated oculomotor and skeletomotor movements.
Peter J. Gianaros
Imaging neuroscience studies of stressful experiences and cardiovascular disease risk.
Anthony A. Grace
Neurophysiology of basal ganglia system related to psychiatric disorders.
Lori L. Holt
Auditory cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on spoken language
John P. Horn
Synaptic computation and neuromodulation in catecholaminergic neurons
Charles C. Horn
Neurobiology of nausea and vomiting.
Robert E. Kass
Statistical analysis of neural data.
Seong-Gi Kim
Functional imaging methods and biophysics.
Anthony E. Kline
Pharmacological and environmental approaches for neurobehavioral and histological recovery after experimental traumatic brain injury.
H. Richard Koerber
Development, plasticity and pain processing in sensory neurons and in the spinal dorsal horn.
William R. Lariviere
Genetics of individual variability in pain and analgesia; interactions between stress and pain systems.
Tai Sing Lee
Computational and electrophysiological study of visual perception, perceptual organization, neural plasticity and neural coding; computer vision.
Beatriz Luna
Brain basis underlying the transition from adolescent to adult level voluntary control of behavior (working memory, response inhibition, reward processing, arousal). fMRI, DTI and oculomotor methods are used.
Colleen A. McClung
The molecular basis of psychiatric diseases.
Bita Moghaddam
Cellular basis of goal-directed behavior and animal models of schizophrenia.
Paul W. Munro
Adaption, learning, and plasticity in simulated neural networks.
Carl R. Olson
Cortical mechanisms of cognition in primates.
Anne-Marie Oswald
Contributions of cortical microcircuit properties to information processing and coding in the olfactory system.
Monica A. Perez
Motor control in humans.
Linda Rinaman
Neural circuits for stress responses and emotional learning: organization and postnatal development.
Sarah E. Ross
The goal of our research is to functionally dissect the neural circuits that underlie pain and itch.
Jonathan Rubin
Theoretical and computational modeling of dynamics in neuronal networks.
Walter Schneider
Cognitive neuroscience, semantic representation, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imaging.
Andrew B. Schwartz
Cerebral basis for volitional movement and cortical neural prosthetics.
Rebecca P. Seal
Neural circuits and behavior
Susan R. Sesack
Functional neuroanatomy of cortical and brainstem monoamine systems.
Etienne L. Sibille
Molecular mechanisms of depression and aging.
Daniel J. Simons
Sensory physiology of the cerebral cortex.
Matthew A. Smith
Cortical circuits and population codes that underlie visual perception
Peter L. Strick
CNS circuits of motor and cognitive functions; motor skill acquisition and retention; functional imaging.
Alan F. Sved
Central neural control of the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular function; neurobiology of nicotine pharmacology.
Michael Tarr
High-level vision and categorization in humans
Edda Thiels
Behavioral, biochemical, and physiological analysis of learning and memory.
Mary Torregrossa
Determining developmental risk factors for addiction and novel treatments based on learning and memory systems.
Robert S. Turner
Neurophysiology of basal ganglia-cortical networks in health and disease.
Nathaniel N. Urban
Physiology imaging and computation in the olfactory system.
Mark Wheeler
Brain imaging and behavioral studies of episodic memory, attentional control, and decision making in memory.
Bill J. Yates
Vestibular influences on autonomic control and navigation.