#  Alex Abate 

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**For me, home is:** Houston Texas

**Prior degree(s):** B.S. in Computation and Cognition at MIT, class of 2022

**Research experience before PiN:** I worked as an undergraduate researcher in Nancy Kanwisher’s lab studying the human ventral visual stream with fMRI and deep learning. Before that, I worked in Ann Graybiel’s lab studying the role of the striatum in decision making and reward prediction using imaging and optogenetics in mice.

**Current research interests:** I am interested in studying cortical representations of movement.

**Interests outside lab:** sailing, cello, piano



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Entry year
    
     [2025-2026](/entry-year/2025-2026)
- ## People
    
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