Department of Brain & Cognitive SCIENCES
Faculty

Professors

  • Jeansok J. Kim
    Jeansok J. Kim 김진석

    Dr. Kim utilizes multi-level analyses toward understanding (i) the effects of stress on brain and behavior, and (ii) the neuronal mechanisms underlying basic associative learning in mammalian brain. These investigations consist of employing lesion, pharmacological, and in vitro and in vivo neurophysiological techniques. Recently, his laboratory began employing a predator-like Robogator (video) (programmable LEGO Mindstorms robot) and a closed economy (video) (self-contained living setting comprised of safe nest and dangerous foraging zones) to investigate rat's foraging behavior in semi-naturalistic, dynamic fear environments. This novel approach might be useful in revealing how fear (and stress) influences risky decision making in humans, in screening drug effects, and in addressing the neuronal basis of the basic approach-avoid conflicts that contribute to human psychopathologies.

  • Daeyeol Lee
    Daeyeol Lee 이대열

    Daeyeol Lee is the Bloomberg Distinguished professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lee is a renowned expert in the field of decision-making neuroscience. The main goal of his research is to understand the brain mechanisms of adaptive behavior. Current projects investigate the prefrontal and striatal mechanisms underlying the dynamic process of updating the values of various objects and actions through experience. He is also interested the brain mechanisms underlying the estimation of temporal intervals and numerical quantities and behavioral control based on such estimates. His research team also develops novel behavioral paradigms that can probe the core processes of decision making. Combined with the use of multi-electrode recording systems, his research seeks to unravel the biological basis of cognition and willful actions.

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