WALKER LAB

Walker lab is a member of the Computational Neuroscience Center seated in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington... At Walker Lab, we develop and utilize deep learning-based methods to analyze large-scale multimodal experimental data, overcoming the limitations of more conventional analysis techniques in making sense of the complex datasets to guide ongoing and future experiments... Combining theories of probabilistic computations in the brain with population recordings and behavioral experiments carefully designed to test theoretical predictions, we work in tight collaboration with animal experimental labs to design and conduct experiments that combine state-of-the-art population recording techniques with complex behavioral paradigms involving decision-making under uncertainty, and subsequently apply novel deep learning-based models and analyses to elucidate the sensory representation and mechanisms underlying probabilistic computation in the..