Description

Animals chose among a wide range of behaviors depending on current sensory cues, internal state, and past experience.  They execute these behaviors by coordinating a limited repertoire of motor neurons driving muscles in their limbs.  Since they cannot perform all behaviors at once, they must select among choices.  A changing series of choices can result in a behavioral sequence.  We are interested in how animals make these choices, both at an algorithmic level and in how specific neural circuits in the brain execute the required computations.

https://labs.mcdb.ucsb.edu/simpson/julie/