Research Interests
The Stauffer Lab focuses on neural circuits that mediate reward processing, affective responses, and volitional behaviors – including learning, deliberating, and decision making.
We use a combination of single-unit recording, optogenetics, computational modeling, and psychophysics to investigate neuronal and neural circuit coding of behaviorally defined reward-related variables. These behaviorally defined variables including value, risk, time, and motivation.
Program
Neuroscience (CNUP)