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Portrait photo of Dora Angelaki

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Dora Angelaki, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Professor of Neural Science, New York University

Publications

Context-invariant beliefs are supported by dynamic reconfiguration of single unit functional connectivity in prefrontal cortex of male macaques

Nature Communications, bioRxiv:2023.07.30.551169, July 9, 2024

Jean-Paul Noel, E. Balzani, Cristina Savin, and D. Angelaki

Coding of latent variables in sensory, parietal, and frontal cortices during closed-loop virtual navigation

Elife, October 25, 2022

JP Noel, E Balzani, E Avila, KJ Lakshminarasimhan, S Bruni, P Alefantis, et al.

A neural mechanism for detecting object motion during self-motion

Elife, June 1, 2022

HR Kim, D. Angelaki, and GC DeAngelis

Sensory Evidence Accumulation Using Optic Flow in a Naturalistic Navigation Task

J Neurosci, May 31, 2022

P Alefantis, KJ Lakshminarasimhan, E Avila, JP Noel, X. Pitkow, and D. Angelaki

Projects

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Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Collaboration
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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
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International brain lab

Funded Work
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Dissecting navigation and the general logic of episodic state computation

Funded Work

Featuring Dora Angelaki

Racoon foraging

In Foraging Tasks, New Opportunities To Study the Brain’s Complexity

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SFARI Fall 2018 Science Meeting Highlighted Recent Findings in Autism Research

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Coordinating Animal- and Human-Based Research on Sensory Alterations in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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SFARI Workshop Revisited the Excitation-Inhibition Hypothesis of Autism

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