We are a computational neuroscience lab interested in how populations of neurons support learning and behavior. From learning a new sport, to playing a game, or talking to a friend, these behaviors all require coordinated changes in the activity of billions of neurons throughout the brain. To understand this process, we use ideas and tools from machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistics to reason about neural population activity during behavior.

About the Plot

The black lines above depict the spiking activity of a population of neurons over time. The scatter plot shows how the spike rates of two neurons covary over time. Click/touch to turn on the stimulus, which will increase the spiking activity. Keyboard controls: + to speed up, – to slow down, spacebar to turn off scatter, and m for dark mode.