The organized activities of neurons within and between brain regions underlie our capacity to form new memories, decide, act, and learn. We seek to understand the roles that neural activity within and between brain regions such as the hippocampus, amygdala, basal ganglia, and cortex play in cognition. Members of the cognitive systems group explore these questions using multiple approaches such as single-unit electrophysiology, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, calcium imaging, optogenetics, and fMRI.
Faculty Researching Cognitive Systems
Gene Alexander
Psychology
John Allen
Psychology
Jessica Andrews-Hanna
Psychology
Shaowen Bao
Physiology
Carol Barnes
Psychology
James Bibb
Translational Neurosciences
Katie Branam
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Haijiang Cai
Neuroscience
Stephen Cowen
Psychology
Fabian-Xosé Fernandez
Psychology
Katalin Gothard
Physiology
Lindsay Halladay
Neuroscience
Charles Higgins
Neuroscience
Richard Lane
Psychiatry
Arthur Riegel
Pharmacology
GSARC Chair
Rita Sattler
Basic Medical Sciences
Nicholas Strausfeld
Neuroscience
Melissa Warden
Translational Neurosciences