Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
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MAR 11, 2020 3:00 PM PDT
PANEL: A Team Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Understanding the Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Working Memory and Decision-Making
Presented at:
Neuroscience Virtual Event Series 2020
Speakers
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Ben Engelhard, PhD
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton Neuroscience InstituteBIOGRAPHY -
Stephen Keeley, PhD
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton Neuroscience InstituteBIOGRAPHY -
Marlies Oostland, PhD
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the labs of Prof. Sam Wang at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Prof. Michael Brecht at the Humboldt UniversityBIOGRAPHY -
Lucas Pinto, MD, PhD
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton Neuroscience InstituteBIOGRAPHY -
Adrian Wanner, PhD
CV Starr Fellow at Princeton UniversityBIOGRAPHY -
Ilana Witten, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton
Abstract
Working memory (the ability to hold some information in mind for a few seconds, and to manipulate that information) and decision-making (committing to one out of multiple possible choices) are fundamental to our daily lives. But how brain circuits and dynamics create those computations is still unknown. Using behaving rodents and deploying the latest research advances in neuroscience, we are a team of 7 different labs, working together in an attempt to crack the problem. We aim to understand how populations of neurons in multiple regions of the brain interact with each other in order to jointly produce what we experience as working memory and decision-making.
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