Core faculty: Staci Bilbo - Neo-natal infection and formation of long-term memories in adulthood: Neuroimmune interactions, cytokines, and biological rhythms. Jennifer Groh - Neural basis of audition and vision: Multisensory and sensorimotor integration. Warren Meck - Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing and working memory: Dopamine/glutamate modulation of cortico-striatal circuits. Nestor Schmajuk - Neural-network models of associative learning and sensory gating: Occasion setting, extinction, reinstatement of conditioned fear, latent and pre-pulse inhibition. Christina Williams - Hormonal and nutrient effects on brain development and aging: Sex differences and epigenetic influences. Henry Yin - Role of the basal ganglia in action and habit formation: Reward, decision making, and drug abuse.
Secondary faculty: Alison Adcock - cognitive neuroscience of motivation and memory William Hall - neurobiology of sensory-motor integration in the superior colliculus Erich Jarvis - neurobiology of vocal communication Kevin LaBar - neuroscience of emotional learning and memory in humans Edward Levin - nicotine, psychpharmacology, neurotoxicology Miguel Nicolelis - computational principles underlying interactions
between populations of cortical and subcortical neurons that mediate perception. Stephen Nowicki - function, evolution & perception of complex birdson Michael Platt - ethological and neurophysiological approaches to decision making Scott Swartzwelder - alcohol, long term potentiation, adolescence William Wetsel - animal models of neuropsychiatry disease
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