Anne Churchland

Anne Churchland is a professor of neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her B.A. in mathematics and psychology from Wellesley College, and she received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco in 2003. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2010 and was a principal investigator in neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 2010 until she joined the UCLA faculty in May 2020.

Churchland's laboratory investigates the neural circuits that support decision-making. They measure and manipulate neurons in cortical and subcortical areas while animals make decisions about sensory signals. To connect the neural responses with behavior, they use mathematical analyses aimed at understanding what information is represented at the level of neural populations, both at a given moment and over time. Understanding neural population activity will bolster their long term goal: to determine how the brain can make decisions that integrate inputs from our multiple senses, stored memories and innate impulses.

Churchland has received awards from the McKnight Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Society for Neuroscience and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and she is a recipient of the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award. To learn more visit here.

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