Talk TBA

Azahara Oliva, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Behavior
Cornell University

The main focus of Azahara Oliva’s research is to understand how global brain states modulate local network activity during learning, memory and sleep. In order to produce behavior, brain-wide networks working at a slow time scale coordinate the precise temporal dynamics of local processes in distributed brain areas. She is particularly interested in social behaviors, as they require the integration of global motivational states with local computations relevant for cognitive aspects of social recognition and memory. In addition, she is interested in sleep, during which local processes within a homeostatic range are modulated by brain wide changes in order to consolidate recent experiences.