Congrats to recent Ph.D. graduate Dr. Kevin Miller!!! Kevin was a joint student with Carlos Brody and Matt Botvinick.

Congratulations to graduate student Alex Piet, who just had a paper accepted in Neural Computation on using modeling to distinguish roles of the FOF cortex in decision-making, as well as distinguishing between neural mechanisms by which the FOF could implement a post-categorization memory role. Link to paper will be added when it becomes available.

Ben Scott

Congratulations to postdoc Ben Scott (joint with Tank lab), who was named as one of the prestigious Next Generation Leaders of the Allen Institute for Brain Science .

Marino Pagan

Congratulations to postdoc Marino Pagan, who was awarded a prestigious Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship!

(Recent graduate Ann Duan also got one!)

Ann Duan

Congratulations to recently-graduated Ph.D. student Chun-Yu (Ann) Duan, who was awarded a prestigious Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship!  After graduating in summer 2015, Ann joined Ning-long Xu’s lab at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.

(Current Postdoc Marino Pagan also got one!)

Christine Constantinople

Ben Scott

Congratulations to Ben Scott and Christine Constantinople, co-first authors of a paper in eLife describing how noise variance in pulsatile accumulation of evidence tasks appears to not scale linearly with the number of pulses, but as the square of the number of pulses. This has a number of important implications for how the noise might be generated.

Congratulations to both Tim Hanks and to UC Davis — Tim started his own lab there this November. We’ll miss you Tim!

Tim Hanks

Congratulations to postdoc Chuck Kopec, whose paper on cortical and superior colliculus contributions to memory-guided orienting is now online in Neuron.

Congratulations to ex-postdoc Jeff Erlich, whose paper on inactivating PPC and FOF during accumulation of evidence came out in eLife.