Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit

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The Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit seeks to understand how the brain processes incoming sensory information from the environment. We study how circuit mechanisms on different spatial and temporal scales underlie the sense of smell using a variety of modern systems-neuroscience methods. We seek to analyze the logic of local circuitry to understand how it is ultimately used to guide behaviour and how behaviorally-relevant signals across the brain shape the processing in olfactory sensory areas.