What are the neural mechanisms that allow animals to select the appropriate behavior for their environmental context? Animals quite effectively and agilely select, parse, and integrate the right information for their tasks even when their perception is incomplete, occluded, or distracted. The FLAP MURI team seeks to elucidate these internal mechanisms that govern rapid decision making.
Projects
Multimodal encoding in descending neurons
Varun Sharma, Pramod KC, Jeff Riffell, Simon Sponberg
Testing for descending precision
Leo Wood and Simon Sponberg
Optimal coding strategies shaped by projection convergence and divergence in feedforward networks
Zach Mobille, Usama bin Sikandar, Simon Sponberg, Hannah Choi
Context Dependent Multimodal Integration
Varun Sharma, Simon Sponberg
Neuroanatomy of Descending neurons in Manduca sexta
Pramod KC, Varun Sharma, Simon Sponberg, Jeff Riffell
Rapid position locking and memory
Varun Sharma and Simon Sponberg
Why can animals outrun robots?
Samuel A. Burden, Thomas Libby, Kaushik Jayaram, Simon Sponberg, J. Maxwell Donelan