
We want to understand how animals infer and use internal models to produce adaptive, flexible behavior in dynamic, uncertain settings.
We want to understand how animals infer and use internal models to produce adaptive, flexible behavior in dynamic, uncertain settings.
We aim to discover the circuit dynamics, network architectures, neuronal biophysics, synaptic rules, and molecular pathways that make cognition possible.
We are quantitative experimentalists, theorists, and tool-builders, all working together to break through technical, conceptual, and computational barriers that make cognitive computations challenging to understand.
05/11/20 | We are excited to welcome Carsen Stringer as a Group Leader in MCN. Learn more about the Stringer lab.
07/22/19 | Misha Ahrens Awarded Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize: Group Leader Misha Ahrens has been awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize for 2019 by the Hertie Foundation and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.
06/20/19 | Frustrated Fish Give Up Thanks to Glia, Not Just Neurons: Giving up when efforts are futile depends on glial cells called radial astrocytes, highlighting a novel computational role for the underappreciated brain cells.
02/07/19 | How Larval Fly Brains Deal with Windy Situations: Researchers are uncovering the neural mechanisms behind Drosophila larval navigation in wind.
Head of Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience
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Group Leaders
We are currently not accepting applications for a Group Leader position. Please check back in the Spring of 2021 for more information regarding Group Leader application information.
“How the brain enables cognition is one of the biggest questions in neuroscience. To tackle it, we’re doing everything from designing new imaging techniques to creating novel paradigms to study flexible behavior.”
-Vivek Jayaraman