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Computational Life Sciences Laboratory
Head: Dr. Larry S. Liebovitch
We use experiments, mathematical analysis, and computer simulations to understand the behavior of biological and social systems with many components that interact strongly with each other.
- Ion and fluid movements across cell membranes.
- Motions in proteins.
- Timing of heart attacks.
- Spread of biological and electronic infections.
- Gene regulatory networks.
- Neural networks for drug discovery.
- Spatial distribution of archeological artifacts.
- Conflicts between people, groups, or nations.
- Econophysics.
- Educational materials for students who never liked math.

Wu's Laboratory

Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
Head: Dr. R. Vertes
Subcortical systems control the hippocampal EEG and its functional significance. We examine brainstem-diencephalic networks that control the theta rhythm and non-theta states of the hippocampal EEG and their role in memory processing functions of the hippocampus.

Cognitive Neurodynamics Laboratory
Head: Dr. Steven L. Bressler
The central goal of our laboratory is to understand the spatio-temporal dynamics of activity in the brain as it relates to cognitive function. Our theoretical and experimental studies focus on the investigation of large-scale networks in the cerebral cortex.

Music Dynamics Laboratory
Head: Dr. Ed Large
Our research addresses the question of how the brain responds to complex, temporally structured sequences of events, such as music and speech. We employ a synergy of techniques, including perceptual experiments, dynamical systems modeling and neuroimaging (EEG, MEG & fMRI).

Cognitive Dynamics Laboratory
Head: Dr. Betty Tuller
Our research employs a multi-faceted approach to issues in cognitive dynamics, with typical and atypical populations.

Vision Research Laboratory
Head: Dr. Howard Hock
The focus of our laboratory is on the identification of mechanisms responsible for the detection of motion, and on the interactions among local motion detectors that result in the formation of global motion patterns. Nonlinear dynamics constitutes the unifying theoretical framework for these studies and is the basis for the computational models through which we simulate our experimental results.

Fuchs' Laboratory

Theoretical Neuroscience Group (TNG)
Head: Dr. Viktor Jirsa
Information processing in the human brain relies on the synchronization, as well as the recruitment and disengagement of far distant neural areas. Such high-dimensional neural dynamics results in lower-dimensional behavioral processes including cognition, perception, and motor actions. We wish to understand the fundamental principles of the emergence of cognition from neural network dynamics. Our research is guided by ideas from nonlinear dynamics and self-organization theories, and informed by non-invasive brain imaging (EEG, MEG and fMRI).

Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory
Head: Dr. J.A.S. Kelso
The science of coordination aims to understand how the very many different elements of living things - from genes to cells, to neural ensembles, to brains, to societies - are functionally coordinated in space and time. Our current research uses non-invasive imaging methods (EEG, MEG, fMRI, DTI etc) and behavioral measures to investigate brain areas that underlie human learning, cognition, and the disorders thereof.

Pandya's Laboratory