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Portrait photo of Anne Churchland

Awardee

Anne K. Churchland, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles
Website
churchlandlab.labsites.cshl.edu

Publications

Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI

Nat Commun, March 23, 2023

A. Zador, S Escola, B Richards, B Ölveczky, Y Bengio, K Boahen, et al.

Fastest-ever calcium sensors broaden the potential of neuronal imaging

Nature, March 15, 2023

MB Ryan, A. Churchland, Y Gong, and C Baker

A modular architecture for organizing, processing and sharing neurophysiology data

Nat Methods, March 2, 2023

International Brain Laboratory, N Bonacchi, GA Chapuis, A. Churchland, EEJ DeWitt, M Faulkner, et al.

Pyramidal cell types drive functionally distinct cortical activity patterns during decision-making

Nat Neurosci, January 23, 2023

S Musall, XR Sun, H Mohan, X An, S Gluf, SJ Li, et al.

Projects

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Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Simons Collaboration
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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Neural Underpinnings from Sabatini's Aging Brain Project

Brain specific thyroid hormone dysfunction drives age related cognitive changes and movement and cognition as a window on the lifespan

Funded Work
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International brain lab

Funded Work

Featuring Anne K. Churchland

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2025 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting Held in New York City

Photo of SCGB's 2023 Annual Meeting.

Watch: SCGB Scientists Reflect on 11 Years of Progress in Systems Neuroscience

Confocal microscopy of mouse brain

How Do Our Brains Make Decisions? The International Brain Laboratory Is Closing In on Answers

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5 Simons-Supported Investigators Receive Awards From National Academy of Sciences

Events

Assembling Information to Guide Decisions: When It Works, and How It Can Go Wrong

Lecture

February 9, 2022

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Anne K. Churchland

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