Howard Hughes Medical Institute :: MIT :: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The laboratory uses a wide range of methods (electrophysiological, biochemical, molecular, behavioral, anatomical)
to study the neurobiological basis of learning and memory.
Specific areas of investigation include:
• Experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex and hippocampus
• Developmental plasticity in visual cortex
• Synaptic strengthening and weakening in visual cortex and hippocampus
• Perceptual learning in the visual system
• Neural network function and modification in visual cortex
• Metaplastic changes in synapses, neurons, and neural networks
• Models of autism and Fragile-X syndrome
• Developmental plasticity in visual cortex
• Synaptic strengthening and weakening in visual cortex and hippocampus
• Perceptual learning in the visual system
• Neural network function and modification in visual cortex
• Metaplastic changes in synapses, neurons, and neural networks
• Models of autism and Fragile-X syndrome