Scholarship and Biography

My research addresses the question of how neurons in the brain, communicating with each other via electrical spikes, can connect together in ways to produce useful behavior, and how experience, learning, and training can lead to changes in those connections and hence changes in behavior.

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Organizational Affiliations

Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Brandeis University

Chair, Neuroscience Program, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Neuroscience Program, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Education

University of Bristol
Ph.D.
University of Cambridge
B.A.