Our laboratory utilizes a combination of behavioral, electrophysiological, optical and computational approaches in mice to explore the neuronal mechanisms underlying the initiation of voluntary movements. Fundamentally, we are asking the question of what...
Origins and nature of human knowledge of objects, number, geometry, and other people.
Research in my lab explores how children learn language, how language encodes meaning (semantics), how people understand speech as they are hearing it, and how these processes are affected by developmental disorders (e.g., autism) or differences in the...
I’m a philosopher. My research is on perception and consciousness, and their role in what we can know and in politics. My first book The Contents of Visual Experience (2010) defines a method we can use to test hypotheses about what kinds of things we can...
Information processing in the brain occurs at synapses, and defects in synapse formation are likely to underlie many neurological and psychiatric diseases. We are therefore interested in the molecules and structures that regulate synapse formation, with...
Nelson's research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field that requires expertise in developmental neuroscience and cognitive developmental psychology. His specific interests are concerned with...
We are interested in how cells in the visual system process information. Previous emphasis in the lab was on the parallel processing of different kinds of visual information: form, color, depth, and movement. We discovered an interdigitating and highly...
I work in the field of psychology and economics. In other words, I study the ways that psychological and economic factors jointly influence people's choices. I have particular interests in the following areas: neuroeconomics, genomics, intertemporal...
Kelly's work focuses on various aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific nature of human experience. This gives him a broad forum: recent work has addressed, for example, the experience of time, the possibility of...
My lab focuses on synaptic plasticity: cellular mechanisms, development of functional networks and links to behavior.