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Jacob M Olson, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Jadhav Lab Dept of Psychology & Neuroscience Program Brandeis University
Email: [email protected] Hello and welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Shantanu Jadhav in the Neuroscience Program and Psychology Department at Brandeis University. I am especially curious about brains and cognition from a computation standpoint - how do we effortlessly accomplish so many tasks that our current computers are incapable of? My work utilizes spatial navigation in rats as a systems neuroscience problem to investigate the network and circuitry that accomplishes this comp
Our project building a new maze was selected for the NSF ICorps program this spring! We'll be working to learn more about the potential of commercializing our work and some business basics.