01 — Research

What we study

What happens in our brain when we are thinking? Our lab combines sophisticated behavioral experiments, electrophysiology in non-human primates, fMRI in humans, and computational modeling to understand how networks of neurons process information, accumulate evidence, evaluate options, compute choices, and solve complex problems.

Evidence Accumulation

How does the brain integrate noisy sensory and value information over time to form decisions? We have shown that evidence accumulation occurs in parietal and prefrontal cortex.

PPC PFC DDM SPRT

Value, Attention, & Decision Making

Value information is encoded in the prefrontal cortex. We investigate how attention and salience reshape the value signal during economic choice.

OFC Reward Salience Decision

Complex Cognition

Beyond simple choices: how do monkeys solve Pac-Man with hierarchical strategies, form structured sequences, plan for optimal actions, and reason about complex problems? Bridging cognition and AI.

Planning Language AI

Approach

From neurons to theory of intelligence

Neural Recording

Electrophysiology & fMRI

Behavior

Monkey & human

Neural Networks

RNNs & Transformers

Theory

Bayesian & RL