Harvard Medical School

Our lab studies the molecular and cellular basis of novel organismic physiology and behavior. We emphasize curiosity-driven science and exploration, using comparative approaches featuring a range of unusual and specialized organisms that are uniquely...

Research in the Wolfson lab is focused on understanding how we sense our internal environment. Sensory neurons that innervate internal organs have cell bodies that reside in the dorsal root ganglia, the DRG sensory neurons. These neurons must respond to a...

We are a computational neuroscience lab where we bring together the fields of brain research and artificial intelligence/machine learning to figure out how the brain works. We use mathematical and computational models based on data collected from...

The brain allows animals to successfully interact with a natural world that is rich with opportunity and rife with danger. These interactions are mediated by sensation and movement, which are used by animals to learn about their environment and to make...

Every decision and behavior is haunted by uncertainty, introduced by the noisy and ambiguous nature of the world that surrounds us. Despite this, we make such decisions with seeming ease. Our goal is to understand the fundamental computations and their...

In our lab in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, we worked for many years with non-human primates (NHPs) on a wide variety of questions, including neuronal mechanisms of attention, inference and flexible coding in parietal cortex...

The brain creates memories and expectations through experience interacting with the world around it and decides what it will do with its future given what it already knows and what it predicts will happen. The person in whom the brain resides is aware of...

My lab studies visual recognition in the primate brain, as implemented by the electrophysiological activity of neurons in different areas of cortex. Our ultimate goal is to develop a theory of visual recognition that accounts for the activity of neurons...

A remarkable change occurs in our brains each night, making us lose the essence of who we are for hours at a time: we fall asleep. A process so familiar to us, sleep nevertheless remains among the most mysterious phenomena in biology. The goal of our...

In the first few years of life, humans tremendously expand their behavior repertoire and gain the ability to engage in complex, learned, and reward-driven actions. Similarly, in the few weeks after birth, mice gain the ability to perform sophisticated...