Jingwen Li

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Cortical System & Behavior Laboratory (PI: Dr. Cory Miller) at the University of California, San Diego. I received my Ph.D. in Physics (neuroscience concentration) at the University of Arkansas, where I worked with Dr. Woodrow Shew. Coming from the computational/theoretical side and enriching experimental experience along the training, I am passionate about combining both approaches to understand the brain.

Our brain possesses a remarkable capacity for constantly processing sensory inputs and generating behavioral actions to interact with the environment. My research addresses essential questions regarding this capacity: how does the brain process the continuous flow or sensory input to support real-world behavior, and how are these neural mechanisms disrupted in autism? To answer these questions, I employ a combination of experimental and computational approaches, including head-mounted eye tracking in freely moving animals, wireless electrophysiology recording, pharmacological manipulations, neuronal network modeling, and generalized linear models, to study the neural mechanisms underlying the complex interplay of sensory processing and behavioral generation in naturalistic settings. In particular, my research primarily focuses on natural, active visual processing and visual-behavior generation in the primate brain.

Email: jil286@ucsd.edu
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