Our research program lies at the intersection of perception and memory formation. The goal is to understand how faces and other social cues are processed by neural ensembles distributed throughout the brain. We ask not only how perception leads to memory formation, but also how our past experiences and actions influence perception. Using large-scale electrophysiological recordings, we track the changes in neural population activity that accompany perception and learning, including memory consolidation during sleep. We also use behavioral measures such as preferential looking and scanpath analysis to understand how social cues are processed across primate species.

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