Daeyeol Lee PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences
daeyeol@jhu.edu
Telephone Number: 410-516-1165
Fax Number: 410-516-8648
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218
Room: Krieger 253
Lab Page
Telephone Number: 410-516-1165
Fax Number: 410-516-8648
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218
Room: Krieger 253
Lab Page
Areas of Research
Systems, Cognitive + Computational NeuroscienceNeural Circuits, Ensembles + Connectomes
Graduate Program Affiliations
Neural mechanism of decision making
Decision making is ubiquitous, and the ability to acquire and utilize knowledge about our environment for producing a series of most appropriate actions is essential for survival. The main goal of our research is to understand the brain mechanisms of such 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. Some of our experiments focus on the strategic planning of sequential actions during competitive interactions with computerized opponents. We are also interested the brain mechanisms underlying the estimation of temporal intervals and numerical quantities and behavioral control based on such estimates.
Our research capitalizes on the insights from formal theories of economics and reinforcement learning as well as computational neuroscience of neural coding. We also develop novel behavioral paradigms that can probe the core processes of decision making. Combined with the use of multi-electrode recording systems, our research seeks to unravel the biological basis of cognition and willful actions.