Development and integration of novel neurophysiology collection and analysis techniques in humans and animals, with special emphasis on sleep research and non-invasive methods
Transmission and processing of information between neurons and within spatio-temporal networks of neurons that are biologically relevant to the cortex and other areas of the brain
Neural coding issues, including the role of synchrony on the reliability and precision of neural spiking
Olfaction: Network mechanisms of information processing in the olfactory system
Memory systems: Learning and the basal ganglia (electrophysiology and modeling collaboration with Ann Graybiel)
Synaptic mechanisms: Modeling the molecular machinery involved in synaptic plasticity
Spatial network models of the anatomical and dynamical foundations of epilepsy, Williams Syndrome, autonomous activity and social cognition
Pathogenesis of dystonia: from striatal synaptic plasticity to abnormal sensorimotor learning
statistical mechanics, computer vision, neural coding, deep belief networks
Memory systems: Models of neural circuits in the hippocampus and rate remapping
Brain disorders: glial basis of post-traumatic epileptogenesis, computational modeling of schizophrenia
Inhibitory circuits and neural code: In vivo experimentation and model simulation of inhibitory neural circuits to explore their role in shaping the neural code
Sleep and paroxysmal oscillations: neuronal correlates of spindles and slow-wave oscillations -- multi-scale modeling and EEG/fMRI
Motor systems: optimal control theory approach to modeling the motor system
Neurophilosophy--I recast philosophical problems as experimental ones, and do the experiments. Consequently, I study vision, time perception, and volition
Intracellular transport: MCell models and microscopy of transport in complicated geometries