Our mission is to transform mental health by understanding how the sensory world steers the mind.
We learn through trial and error to respond to sensory cues.
Some sensory cues, we learn to ignore.
Our lab studies how sensory cues become linked to adaptive or maladaptive responses through learning.
Adaptive responses are necessary to develop, survive and thrive; maladaptive responses contribute to disorders across the lifespan. We study this learning process in the auditory and visual systems, as well as in the sensory-recipient regions of the basal ganglia.