News
October 2026
Ryan started recording (Neuropixels in OFC and LIP)!
Jeong Jun (JJ) Park, collaboration with Xuexin Wei’s lab, has joined the lab as a postdoc! Welcome JJ!
Thom’s paper on cognitive control is out in Neuron!
September 2026
Morgan and Ryan’s first computational psychiatry paper is out on bioRxiv!
August 2026
Isaac’s Registered Report on temporal discounting has just come out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - congratulations Isaac!
July 2026
Morgan started recording - simultaneous Neuropixels in OFC and IT!
Thom attended the Gordon Research Conference on “Neurobiology of Cognition” in Waterville Valley, NH
April 2026
Isaac’s work on time perception and temporal discounting won the UT Austin College of Natural Sciences Excellence in Neuroscience Research Award. Congratulations Isaac!
February 2026
The lab’s first neurophysiology paper has been accepted at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience! Morgan and Ryan are co-first-authors and show that the orbitofrontal cortex is functionally specialized for value-based but not perceptual decisions.
Isaac’s Registered Report at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review has just been accepted. This work addresses how individual differences in people’s willingness to delay gratification relates to their subjective experience of time.
December 2025
Ryan Read joins the lab as graduate student - welcome Ryan!
July 2025
We fabricated our first Neuropixel holders here at UT Austin - we’re all set to record!
June 2025
Hannah Stealey joins the lab as a Senior Research Engineer - welcome Hannah!
February 2025
Morgan Moll joins the lab as a graduate student - welcome Morgan!
January 2025
New paper out in Nature Neuroscience which showed how hippocampal-prefrontal interactions enable context-dependent choices!
The lab has officially opened its doors in Austin!
