Princeton Neuroscience Institute

A primary goal of the Certificate Program in Neuroscience at Princeton is to provide laboratory experience under the mentorship of faculty to talented undergraduates interested in the brain. The program encourages the serious study of molecular, cellular, developmental and systems Neuroscience as it interfaces with cognitive and behavioral research. Current examples at Princeton include: plasticity and timing-dependent learning rules at synapses, coincidence detection and computation in dendrites, adaptation and pattern detection in neural circuits, cellular and circuit mechanisms of short-term memory, sensory-motor transformations in the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the adult brain, viral infections of the nervous system, brain imaging studies of cognitive functions such as attention and memory in human subjects, and mathematical and computational analysis of neural network function.

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