COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
We apply computational techniques to gain insight on neural mechanisms supporting cognition
Edward Awh PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology and The College
Professor Awh received a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University and MA and Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan. He completed his dissertation research in the laboratories of John Jonides and Edward E. Smith at Michigan. Professor Awh did his postdoctoral research at the Center for Human Information Processing at University of California, San Diego.
Prior to UChicago, Professor Awh held a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at University of Oregon.
Leslie Kay PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology and The College
Professor Kay received a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then worked for the original GenBank project at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982-85. She worked as a programmer/analyst in business applications for a number of years in the mid- to late 80s, and then returned to graduate school at UC Berkeley. She completed her dissertation research in the laboratory of Walter J. Freeman, and received a Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1995. Kay completed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilles Laurent at the California Institute of Technology, where she studied olfactory bulb mitral cell responses to changes in odor context.
Edward K. Vogel PhD
Director, Institute for Mind and Biology
Professor, Department of Psychology and The College
Professor Vogel received a BA in Psychology from University of Puget Sound and a Ph.D. in Pyschology from University of Iowa. He completed his dissertation in the lab of Steven J. Luck.Professor Vogel held a postdoctoral research position at the Institute for Neural Computation at University of California, San Diego.
Prior to UChicago, Professor Vogel held faculty appointments in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at University of Oregon.
