Rachel Kalmar
Neurosciences
Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships 2005/2006
Profs. Krishna Shenoy (Electrical Engineering)
and William Newsome (Neurobiology)

Rachel is interested in understanding how ensembles of neurons collectively encode and transmit information, and how this neural activity underlies complex behavior and cognition. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological and computational approaches, she will explore how the brain computes values, how this computation drives decision making, and the applications of this value assessment in the context of neural prosthetic development.
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