Jafarpour, Anna (University of Washington) Neural circuits for perception and memory of lifelike sequences of events using intracranial EEG and computational techniques

Jeffery, Kate (UCL) Neural mechanisms of learning & memory and navigation

Jehee, Janneke (Donders Institute) Neural basis of visual perception and perceptual decision making

Jones, Stephanie (Brown University) Circuit mechanisms underlying human attention, perception and disease states

Jozwik, Kamila (Cambridge) Object recognition: computational modelling, brain representations and behaviour.

Kainmueller, Dagmar (Berlin Institute of Health) Computational techniques for biological imaging

Kanwisher, Nancy (MIT) Brain imaging and behavior to understand vision

Alla Karpova (Janelia Farm) Neural circuits of reward-dependent behavior

Kastner, Sabine (Princeton) Neural mechanisms of attention

Kaun, Karla  (Brown University) Mechanisms of memory, reward and addiction in the fruit fly

Kiorpes, Lynne (NYU) Neural mechanisms that underlie development of the primate visual system

Kuceyeski, Amy (Weill Cornell Medicine) Structural and functional brain connectivity in health and disease

Lacour, Stephanie (EPFL) Focus on the materials, technology and integration of soft bioelectronic interfaces including artificial skin, ultra-compliant neural electrodes for in vitro platforms as well as in vivo implants

Lazar, Andreea (Ernst Strungmann Institute) Studying dynamics and plasticity in biological and artificial recurrent neural networks.

Levina, Anna (University of Tübingen) Mechanisms and origins of brain computational power.

Lewis, Laura (MGH/Harvard) Thalamocortical network dynamics, computational neuroimaging techniques, and sensory coding in sleep and wake states.

Li, Zhaoping (University College, London) Vision and psychophysics as well as theory

Lim, Sukbin (NYU Shanghai) Modeling and analysis of neuronal systems

Linden, Jennifer (University College London) Auditory perception and learning

Linster, Christiane (Cornell University) Neural basis of sensory information processing

Ma-Wyatt, Anna (University of Adelaide) Visual perception, eye movements, hand movements

Maggi, Silvia (Univ. of Manchester) Network theory, modelling basal ganglia and cortical dynamics

Marciniak, Karolina (The Rockefeller University) The Neural Computations of Intuitive Physics

Marder, Eve (Brandeis) How circuit function arises from the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and their connections

Martelli, Carlotta (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Drosophila sensory systems

Martin, Andrea E. (Max Planck/University of Edinburgh) Mechanistic theories of language processing built on neural oscillations and computational modelling

Martinez-Conde, Susana (SUNY Downstate) Neural bases of our visual experience

Mathis, Mackenzie (Harvard) Adaptive motor control

Moser, May-Britt (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU) Memory and navigation. Entorhinal cortex and hippocampus

Moss, Cynthia (Hopkins) Auditory processing and sensorimotor integration in bats

Muldoon, Sarah Feldt (University at Buffalo – SUNY) Computational modeling and data analysis to understand the role of network organization in brain function

Murthy, Mala (Princeton) Sensorimotor integration and social interactions in Drosophila

Nagel, Katherine (NYU) Olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Narayan, Manjari (Stanford University) Using high dimensional statistics & statistical causal inference to model functional connectivity

Nielsen, Kristina (Johns Hopkins) Neural circuits underlying object recognition

Hendrikje Nienborg (Tuebingen) Mechanisms of visual perception at the network level

Nisky, Ilana (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Computational models and behavioral experiments of perception, action, and motor adaptation and learning, complex skill aquisition, haptics, robotics in medicine

Niv, Yael (Princeton) Reinforcement learning, decision making, fMRI & modeling

Nobre, Anna (Oxford) Neural mechanisms of visual attention and visual memory

Noppeney, Uta (University of Birmingham) Multisensory perception and learning

Olkkonen, Maria (Durham University) Recruitment of prior knowledge about the world in the construction of visual representations

Orsborn, Amy (University of Washington) Motor learning and adaptation in brain-machine interfaces

Osborne, Leslie (U Chicago) Linking neural variability to behavior

Oswald, Anne-Marie (University of Pittsburgh) Cortical circuits for sensory learning and memory

Circuits, systems, olfactory, sensory, synapses

Pastalkova, Eva (Janelia Farm) Hippocampal ensemble coding

Pasternak, Tania (U. of Rochester) Cortical circuitry underlying memory guided sensory decisions

Pasupathy, Anitha (U Washington) Processing of complex visual inputs

Pelot, Nicole (Duke university) Neural engineering

Yiota Poirazi (FORTH) Modeling of neural/dendritic computations for learning & memory

Prager-Khoutorsky, Masha (McGill University) Neurobiology of hypothalamic circuits controlling body fluid homeostasis

Preston, Alison (University of Texas) Memory formation and retrieval

Priesemann, Viola (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization) Network dynamics and function in vivo; analytical treatment of spatial subsampling constraints

Prinz, Astrid (Emory) Homeostatic regulation

Rajan, Kanaka (Mount Sinai) Recurrent neural networks

Rangel, Lara M (UCSD) Neural rhythms in the hippocampus during associative memory processing

Raymond, Jennifer (Stanford) Neural circuits for motor learning in the cerebellum

Heather Read (U. Conn) Cortical and brainstem circuits for processing auditory inputs

Read, Jenny (Univ. Newcastle) Human psychophysics and modeling to probe stereopsis

Reinagel, Pam (UCSD) Vision and rat behavior

Rich, Erin (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Neurophysiology and Decision Making

Rochefort, Nathalie (Edinburgh University) Cortical processing of visual information

Rodd, Jennifer (Univ. College London) Integrating neuroimaging, cognitive and computational modelling approaches to studying language comprehension

Roitman, Jamie (Univ. Illinois) Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making

Rosenholtz, Ruth (MIT) Modeling and psychophysics to understand visual perception and attention

Nicole, Rust (U. Penn) Visual processing at the nexus of visual perception and cognition

Sanchez-Vives, Mavi (ICREA- Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona) Spontaneous emergent activity, slow oscillations, brain states, immersive virtual reality, body representation

Sandamirskaya, Yulia (University of Zurich/ ETH Zurich) Neuro-dynamics and neuromorphic robotics

Sarma, Sridevi (John’s Hopkins) Modeling, Estimation and Control in Neuroscience: Applications to Disease

Savin, Cristina (NYU) Circuit-level models of learning, probabilistic brain computation, machine learning for neural data analysis

Saxena, Shreya (Columbia University) Estimation and Control for Neural Populations; Sensorimotor Control

Schubert, Teresa (Harvard University) Processes forming the interface between vision and language: letter and word recognition

Seo, Hyojung (Yale Univ) Prefrontal mechanisms of decision-making and reinforcement learning

Sereno, Margaret (University of Oregon) Neural basis of perception in primates

Shanechi, Maryam (USC) Algorithmic solutions to basic science/clinical problems

Sharpee, Tatyana (Salk) Sensory processing from the point of view of information theory

Shin, Hyeyoung (University of California, Berkeley) Neocortical dynamics underlying perception

Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara (Boston University) Attention and audition

Skinner, Frances (Krembil Research Institute and Univ Toronto) Modeling cellular-based hippocampal activities

Slovin, Hamutal (Bar Ilan University) Neuronal circuits and cortical mechanisms
of visual processing

Song, Zhouyi (Univ. of Sheffield) Computational analysis of photoreceptors

Sternad, Dagmar (Northeastern University) Acquisition and control of goal-directed human movements

Striem-Amit, Ella (Georgetown University) Sensory and motor plasticity in people born blind, deaf or without hands

Sullivan, Regina (New York University Langone Medical Center) Neurobiology of infant attachment to caregiver and neural mechanisms of enduring mental health effects of abuse and trauma in early life

Teng, Ching-Ling (U. Virginia) Auditory perception and learning

Ting, Lena (Emory University) Neural control of movement, balance

Tsao, Doris (Caltech) Brain mechanisms for object recognition and spatial vision

Turrigiano, Gina (Brandeis) Homeostatic mechanisms

Tye, Kay (MIT) Neural circuits for motivated behaviors

Tyler, Lorraine (Univ. of Cambridge) Neurocognitive models of language and meaning

Tymula, Agnieszka Anna (University of Sydney) Biological constraints in economic decision-making

Uusisaari, Marylka Yoe (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Computational and experimental methods to study the rhythmic and resonant features of neuronal circuits related to motor behavior

Vassena, Eliana (Radboud University) Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivation, decision-making, effort and cognitive control

Verghese, Preeti (Smith Kettlewell) Probing vision with signal detection theory and psychophysics

Vertes, Petra (Univ. of Cambridge) Network Science and brain mapping

Werner, Annette (Tuebingen) Color vision and adaptation