Neuroscience Program
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Exposure to inflammation during critical developmental windows can disrupt neural circuitry formation and function, increasing the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. Using maternal viral infection, my lab investigates how microbial, immune, and microglial signaling might underlie the etiologies of these disorders.
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Here, I will describe how we use machine learning to extract visual attributes represented by neurons and show that neurons may act as “similarity machines," signaling the distance between input signals and their encoded attributes.
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Cognitive processes can have profound effects on sensory experience. In this lecture I will discuss our recent electrophysiology findings revealing that prefrontal cortex is highly sensitive to behavioral errors when task rules are updated. We will also provide evidence that this engagement leads to rapid plasticity in sensory cortices altering perceptual performance.
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Sex hormones are powerful neuromodulators of learning and memory. This talk highlights recent findings from the Jacobs Lab suggesting that neuroendocrine factors rapidly and dynamically influence the human brain over the lifecourse.