Large-scale networks for decision making  

Welcome to the Pinto Lab at The University of Chicago! We are part of the Department of Neurobiology. 

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 cognitive processes? To do this we combine high-throughput behavior in virtual reality, optical, electrophysiological 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.