The goal of our lab is to make discoveries about how neural circuits interact and change with learning to drive behavior
There are 3 major areas we are focused on at the moment:
... encoding environmental variables to guide behaviour ...
... encoding internal physiological state variables and needs to guide behaviour ...
... integrating information from cortical and hypothalamic areas, the decision variables, to transform decisions to actions ...
Research Approaches
To examine our research questions, we employ a diverse set of research tools and techniques.
A large repository of behavioural tasks
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Chronic Electrophysiology
We are using a state-of-the-art electrophysiology tool: 4-shank Neuropixels 2.0 probes. These probes can traverse many brain regions and are exquisitely suited to chronic implantation.
Miniaturized Two-Photon Microscopy
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Optogenetic Manipulation
Neural recordings can identify and characterize audiovisual signals, but to determine which regions, or pathways, are necessary for behaviour requires causal manipulations.