Todd Troyer, PhD
Associate Professor
Research in the Troyer lab focuses on the question of how neural activity is coordinated within neural circuits to produce behavior. One set of research questions centers on studies of vocal communication in songbirds and mice. Songbirds are an excellent model system for understanding how the brain orchestrates activity on multiple timescales to produce a complex sequence of actions. A second line of research employs theoretical and modeling techniques to gain fundamental insights into how noise and variability influence computations in neural circuits.