Hillel Adesnik

Research

The goal of our laboratory is to reveal the neural basis of perception. More specifically, we want to understand exactly how cortical microcircuits process sensory information to drive behavior. While decades of research have carefully outlined how individual neurons extract specific features from the sensory environment, the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that permit ensembles of cortical neurons to actually process sensory information and generate perceptions are largely unknown. To address these questions were are developing novel imaging and electrophysiological approaches to probe the neural mechanisms of perception at the synaptic, cellular, circuit, and brain wide levels.