Large-scale networks for decision making

Welcome to the Pinto Lab at Northwestern! We are a new lab in the Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, in the heart of Chicago. 

We want to understand how neural circuits across many brain areas interact to support decision making. In particular, how are these interactions flexibly reconfigured when animals make decisions that use different underlying computations? To do this we combine high-throughput behavior in virtual reality, optical and genetic tools to measure and manipulate the dynamics of single neurons and neuronal populations, and computational approaches to understand both the behavior and its relationship to neural activity.