Palmer Lab
Principal Investigator: Stephanie E Palmer
Institution: University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: Inquire for rotation/fellowship opportunities
Research Focus
Project Summary The Theory Models and Methods (TMM) hub put forward in this renewal proposal will work to translate successful and powerful approaches to describing emergent collective behavior in neural systems and behavior into usable code for the broad neuroscience community. Working closely together, the three theorists will develop methods for finding and interpreting the relevant modes of population activity in the brain, both in instantaneous snapshots of activity and activity as it evolves in time. Methods will be tested in a wide range of neural systems at different processing stages and scales: from salamanders to rodents to humans, from the retina to the cortex, from tens to thousands of cells. The approach will be validated by checking that the neural code can be read out with high fidelity even after being compressed into a much smaller subspace. The project will produce data analysis code that will be made available for neuroscience researchers to use on their own data, in addition to the results of the analyses of the particular systems studied. The neural code is inherently collective; while single neurons execute sophisticated computations, hundreds to thousands of…
Active NIH Awards
- 9R01DA063453-04: Coarse-graining approaches to networks, learning and behavior (2026)
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