Nuyujukian Lab
Principal Investigator: Paul Nuyujukian
Institution: Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: Inquire for rotation/fellowship opportunities
Research Focus
PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): What operations are performed by the mammalian central nervous systems to coordinate and conduct voluntary movement? Motor systems neuroscience seeks to understand these neural mechanisms. The last two decades have witnessed a transformation in this field with the use of multielectrode recordings and statistical estimation and modeling techniques. These technological advances have yielded rich, low-dimensional neural dynamics that are suggestive of the mechanisms underlying behavior. To minimize confounds, the overwhelming majority of these studies utilize behavioral constraint to isolate just the behaviors of interest for study. While effective for generating many behaviorally similar trials, this may have the unintentional consequence of artificially constraining neural dynamics to a subset of its full range. This project seeks to better understand the full repertoire of behavior in a freely-moving setting and model this neural activity using novel computational tools. This project combines the expertise of two neuroscientists with complemenary skillsets spanning systems and computational neuroscience. This project will involve acquiring novel,…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01NS130789-05: CRCNS: Deconstructing dynamics of motor cortex in freely moving behavior (2026)
- 5R01NS123517-05: Motor neural dynamics of free behavior enabled through 3D computer vision (2026)
- 3R01NS130789-04S1: CRCNS: Deconstructing Dynamics of Motor Cortex in Freely Moving Behavior (2025)
- 5R01NS123517-04: Motor neural dynamics of free behavior enabled through 3D computer vision (2025)
- 5R01NS130789-04: CRCNS: Deconstructing dynamics of motor cortex in freely moving behavior (2025)
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