What is brain activity?

Brain tissue is the main generator of our lived experience of the world.

Understanding how experience arises from activity in the brain would unlock new ways to help people with brain differences that change the world they experience.

To develop this understanding, we need to measure and analyze brain activity. However, this means that our understanding is altered by what we can measure, and how we analyze those measurements. Much of what we know about brain activity comes through the lens of tools that allowed us to observe a few specific biophysical processes in one specific cell type, the neuron. However, recent work has uncovered new ways of observing and thinking about brain activity that challenge us to envision a new picture of "neuro"science.

I focus my research on understanding the many different facets of activity in the brain, and their deep relationships with one another.