The Sosa lab seeks to understand how memories are formed, stored, and retrieved at the level of single neurons, neural circuits, and systems. We are particularly interested in how memory processes flexibly adapt in response to cognitive goals, emotional states, and physiological demands on the brain and body, including the profound demand of pregnancy and the postpartum period. Our research spans in vivo optical imaging, electrophysiology, circuit manipulations, complex rodent behaviors, and computational analysis.
NRSC 4082 - Neural Circuits of Learning and Decision Making
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Spring 2026
Provides an in-depth survey of the neural mechanisms of learning, motivated behavior and decision making. Analysis will focus on the interaction of neural circuits underlying these processes with particular attention to the cellular, molecular and information-processing aspects of identified pathways and considered into the context learning-based and neuroeconomic models of choice. Same as NRSC 5082.
