Pospisil lab

We are a computational neuroscience lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Psychology.  

The overall research goal of our lab is to create accurate and interpretable models of the nervous system. To achieve this goal we plan to address three primary challenges impeding progress towards it:

(1) Characterizing complex sensory representations: sensory representations are characterized by their heterogeneity; it is not clear how to summarize and gain broad insight into them.

(2) Extracting structure from noisy high-dimensional neural data: neural and behavioral data is often high-dimensional and noisy leading to challenges in resolving statistical structure.

(3) Mechanistic model inference: mechanistic models of the brain cannot be inferred solely based on observational data and no principled paradigm for incorporating neural perturbations (e.g., optogenetics) and anatomical data (connectomics) into a neuron level causal model have emerged.

Please take a look at our research.