Our lab consists of team members with backgrounds in neuroscience, cognitive science, physics, and engineering who are deeply curious about how the mind works. In particular, we are interested in how we learn, remember, imagine, navigate, solve, and decide things. Our investigation of these processes is focused on the role of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and their interactions with other brain regions. Our work involves studying these processes in rats and mice using a range of state-of-the-art systems neuroscience techniques. These techniques include: behavioral tasks in freely moving animals and virtual reality, large-scale extracellular recording and imaging, real-time processing and brain-machine interfaces, optogenetics, analysis of neural population data, and modeling (in collaboration with theoretical/computational neuroscience groups).