Bilingualism and second language learning
Research description: Motor learning and motor adaptation for locomotor rehabilitation.
Spatial representations in rodent brains; cognitive robotics
Animal awareness/cognition and the nature of consciousness.
Neurocomputational mechanisms of deficient value-based decision-making that drive suicidal behavior.
Basal ganglia, thalamus and cortex in movement and movement disorders
Role of GABAergic neurons in controlling neocortical circuitry.
Two-photon microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, optical imaging, electrophysiology, MRI, fMRI. Brain blood flow and energy metabolism, Alzheimer’s disease
Sensorimotor systems, health neuroscience and connectomics.
Investigating how dynamic, flexible aspects of the mapping of speech input to phonemes are represented in the intracerebral response of human cortex using a combination of stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and behavioral experiments.