How the brain makes sense of the world around us

Our thoughts, sensations, emotions, and ability to plan our lives emerge from the collective activity of billions of neurons in the brain. We study how this vast neural network builds internal maps of the world, forms memories, and reshapes itself during sleep. By combining large-scale neural recordings, computational modeling, and open science tools, we reveal how brain circuits, from the brainstem to the cortex, encode space, time, and experience in both health and disease, and how these dynamics are disrupted in conditions such as autism and epilepsy.