Anne Churchland

rdf:langString Anne Churchland

rdf:langString Anne Churchland

rdf:langString Anne Churchland

rdf:langString B.A., Wellesley College; PhD, UCSF

rdf:langString Neuroscience

rdf:langString Neural circuits underlying perceptual decision making and multisensory integration

rdf:langString Canadian, American

rdf:langString Anne K. Churchland is a neuroscientist at University of California, Los Angeles. Her laboratory studies the function of the posterior parietal cortex in cognitive processes such as decision-making and multisensory integration. One of her discoveries is that individual neurons in rodent posterior parietal cortex can multitask i.e. play a role in multiple behaviors. Another discovery is that rodents are similar to humans in their ability to perform multisensory integration, i.e. to integrate stimuli from two different modalities such as vision and hearing. Churchland is an advocate of using rodents to study these cognitive processes, and together with scientists Zachary Mainen and Anthony Zador at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory she has made substantial advances in bringing to these species the advanced behavioral techniques previously available only in primates. Churchland is a founding member of the International Brain Laboratory and an advisor to the Allen Institute for Brain Science. She is the founder of Anneslist, a website which promotes equality in representation across genders in scientific meetings. Her parents are the philosophers Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland and her brother is neuroscientist Mark Churchland.

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