The major goal of systems neuroscience is to understand how neuronal circuits function to produce sensation, emotion, action, and other complex behaviors. Questions addressed by systems neuroscience investigators include:
- How do we see, hear, feel, move, and make decisions?
- How do neurons encode sensory information and how is that information decoded?
- How can we keep track of a single voice in the complex environment of a noisy party?
- How does processing of sensory information change with age?
- How do we navigate through a complex environment?
- What is the functional organization of neuronal connections that give rise to the emergent properties of the functioning nervous system?
- How do different brain areas communicate with each other?
- How do neural circuits form memories? And how can this information be retrieved again?
Faculty studying systems
In-House
- Xiaomo Chen, PhD
- William DeBello, PhD
- Jochen Ditterich, PhD
- Diasynou Fioravante, PhD
- Mark Goldman, PhD
- Gene Gurkoff, PhD
- Tim Hanks, PhD
- Christina Kim, PhD
- Leah Krubitzer, PhD
- Gregg Recanzone, PhD
- Mitchell Sutter, PhD
- W. Martin Usrey, PhD
- Jennifer Whistler, PhD
- Brian Wiltgen, PhD
- Andrew Yonelinas, PhD
Affiliated
- David Amaral, PhD
- Paul Ashwood, PhD
- Eliza Bliss-Moreau, PhD
- Simon Cherry, PhD
- Stacey Combes, PhD
- Wenbin Deng, PhD
- Johannes Hell, PhD
- Wilsaan Joiner, PhD
- George (Ron) Mangun, PhD
- John Morrison, PhD
- Kwan Ng, MD, PhD
- Christine Wu Nordahl, PhD
- David Olson, PhD
- Doug Rowland, PhD
- Kiarash Shahlaie, MD, PhD
- Sergey Stavisky, PhD
- Brian Trainor, PhD