DudmanLab

neural circuitsbehaviorcomputationphysiology

Research

Learning purposive, flexible actions

Behavioral and neural changes underlying naive learning

RESEARCH

Models of Learning

Our work in the context of reinforcement learning models

Resources

Tools + Neuroscience

Molecular tools, hardware, and software for systems neuroscience

Papers

Publications

Our published work spanning circuits, behavior, and computation

People

Our Team

Scientists with backgrounds from engineering, biophysics, and psychology

Culture

News & Writings

Accessible accounts of our work

Our lab is at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

We are a collection of scientists with a broad range of backgrounds from biophysics to psychology.

We are part of a collaborative, multi-lab research community at Janelia — tool-builders, biologists, and theorists working side by side.

We are committed to openly disseminating our work, embracing diversity, and engaging our broader community through outreach.

Latest News

New Paper

Our first paper on a new paradigm from Laura Grima and collaborators — A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

Read on bioRxiv →

New Paper

A new opinion piece with Jason Keller — Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement

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New Paper

A new paper from Juan Gallego's lab — Preserved neural population dynamics across animals performing similar behavior — featuring data from Junchol

Read in Nature →

New Paper

Luke's study Mesolimbic dopamine adapts the rate of learning from action is now published in its final version at Nature

Read & explore data →

New Paper

Junchol's preprint — Conjoint specification of action by neocortex and striatum — is now available online

Read & check out data →

New Paper

Junchol's paper — Motor cortical output for skilled forelimb movement is selectively distributed across projection neuron classes — now at Science Advances

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Seminar

Josh gave a talk on how dopamine facilitates learning from action at an SFN Minisymposium

SFN program →

Seminar

Luke presented A role for dopamine in value-free learning as part of the neuromodulation block in WWNeuRise

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Get in Touch

We are always on the lookout to work with talented, interested people with diverse skills and backgrounds — either as members of the lab, through the Janelia Visiting Scientists program, the Graduate Program, or the Undergraduate Scholars program.

Info

Location

Janelia Research Campus
19700 Helix Drive
Ashburn, VA 20147

Institution

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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