Our Lab Members
We are always looking for curious, motivated, and collaborative researchers excited to study how brain circuits support flexible behavior and generalization.
Shin Kira
Assistant Professor
Shin is primarily interested in how the brain makes sense of the complex real world, and how this remarkable capability can be restored when it is impaired. He received his MD from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan and completed his PhD in the Shadlen Lab at the University of Washington and Columbia University, where he studied decision-making in monkeys and humans using electrophysiology, psychophysics, and computational modeling. For his postdoctoral work in the Harvey Lab at Harvard Medical School, he studied how the brain combines memory and sensory input to generate appropriate actions, using a navigation-based decision-making task in mice, two-photon calcium imaging, and optogenetics.
