Cognitive
Neurophysiology
Lab
Liya Ma
Assistant professor
I did my doctoral studies on neural coding of sequential instrumental actions at the University of British Columbia, with Drs. Jeremy Seamans and Anthony Phillips. With the support of a CIHR Fellowship and BrainsCAN Tier I Fellowship, I studied how frontoparietal cortical activities support cognitive control in the primate brain, with Dr. Stefan Everling at Western University. Supported by a Christine Mohrmann Fellowship, I set up my first lab in the Donders Centre for Neuroscience at Radboud University in the Netherlands to study the neural correlates underlying flexible decision making. Now I continue this line of work in a new world primate model at the Centre for Vision Research, York University in Toronto, Canada. I am a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neurophysiology.
Email: liyama@yorku.ca
Nupur Katyare
Postdoctoral Researcher
As a PhD candidate at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University, I am investigating how the value of a choice is represented and flexibly updated in key brain regions, using a combination of high-density electrophysiological recording, probablistic reversal learning task in mice, and in silico modeling.
Francesca Abela
PhD candidate
As a PhD candidate at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University, I am investigating how the value of a choice is represented and flexibly updated in key brain regions, using a combination of high-density electrophysiological recording, probablistic reversal learning task in mice, and in silico modeling.
Mira Bhattacharya
Research Assistant
As a PhD candidate at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University, I am investigating how the value of a choice is represented and flexibly updated in key brain regions, using a combination of high-density electrophysiological recording, probablistic reversal learning task in mice, and in silico modeling.
Veedhi Solanki
Research Assistant
I am a 4th year biomedical science student. I analyze neuronal electrophysiological data from animals in phy kilosort. I am also doing literature review on working memory and marmoset behaviour. I am interested in computational approaches to data analysis on how neuronal activity for a behaviour connects with a specific brain regions.
Lab Alumni
Yiping Zhang
Postdoctoral researcher
In my doctoral studies with Dr. Tansu Celikel at Donders Centre for Neuroscience at Radboud University, I studied how sensory and motor cortices interact during both passive and active whisker sensing in mice, and how dopamine and serotonin modulate these processes. As a postdoc, I studied how the anterior cingulate cortex and premotor cortex interact to support flexible decision making in rats.