Corey White, a postdoctoral fellow in the Podrack Lab, received a postdoctoral NRSA for his research project entitled “Neural correlates of decision bias in anxiety”. This project seeks to understand why individuals with high levels of anxiety are biased to…
Dr. Russ Poldrack’s Nature Methods publication was awarded the Innovation Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. The Innovation Award recognizes an article authored by a SAN member and published in a scholarly outlet that makes a contribution likely to generate…
Tammy Tran, an undergraduate student in the Preston Lab, received the Rapaport-King Thesis Scholarship from the College of Liberal Arts. The Rapaport-King Scholarship is awarded to Honors Program students in the College of Liberal Arts who are conducting research and…
Dr. Ila Fiete recently published her paper entitled “Fundamental limits on persistent activity in networks of noisy neurons” in PNAS. The research investigates memory, diffusion and information-diffusion inequality in the brain. Y. Burak and I. R. Fiete. (2012). Fundamental limits on persistent…
Dr. Hiroshi Nishiyama received a R01 grant from the NINDS for his project entitled “CNS Mechanisms of developmental synapse elimination”. This project investigates how the precision of synaptic circuitry is created in the developing mammalian brain by observing the process in…
John Widloski, graduate student in the Fiete Lab, received the Burroughs-Welcome Fund Award to attend the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course in Woods Hole, MA.
Akram Bakkor, graduate student in the Poldrack lab, received a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship supports Akram’s research project investigating the neural mechanisms underlying how learned behaviors are changed. Using behavioral testing, modeling and fMRI analyses…
Building biologically realistic computer simulations of the brain…
Using high-resolution functional MRI to investigate how memory is implemented in the human brain…
Dr. Boris Zemelman is the recipient of a Human Frontiers in Science Program Grant. This grant entitled “In vivo functional imaging and high-resolution manipulations of hippocampal memory circuits” is a collaborative project that will investigate how the brain encodes and processes…
