Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Research Interests
The long-term goal of the Laubach Lab is to understand the role of the frontal cortex and the basal ganglia in the flexible control of behavior. Our current focus is on understanding how cortical and striatal networks are able to anticipate stimuli that have reward value, maintain information about such stimuli in working memory, and undergo changes in activity during learning. These issues are studied using multi-electrode recording methods in awake, behaving rodents. We are also actively studying how information can be decoded from spike activity and relations between spike trains and field potentials. Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the Kavli Foundation. We are a core group in the Swartz Initiative for Theoretical and Systems Neuroscience at Yale
(http://swartz-initiative.med.yale.edu/).
Top-Down Control of Action by
Medial Frontal Cortex
Recent Publications
Laubach M., Narayanan NS, and Kimchi EY. "Single-neuron and ensemble contributions to decoding simultaneously recorded spike trains." Chapter 6 in "Mechanisms of Information Processing in the Brain", Edited by Christian Hölscher and Matthias Munk. Cambridge University Press. In Press. Expected to be available at SfN-07 in San Diego.
