Louis, where she was named Endowed Chair of Neurobiology in 2003.

In 1999 she moved to Washington University in St. In 1993, she accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.

In 1991 she earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Angelaki began her academic career at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, where she studied electrical engineering. Angelaki hopes to inspire the development of artificial systems, prosthetics, and other tools for understanding and treating deficits of sensory inference, spatial orientation, cognition, and action.ĭr. By understanding these computational principles of the brain in health and disease, Dr. Their research aims to uncover the neural implementation of canonical neural computations and how they may lead to sensory, motor, memory, and cognitive deficits in neuropsychological disease.

To investigate these questions, they employ time-dependent engineering approaches to understand neural dynamics and network coding of multi-modal information at multiple stages of processing under diverse naturalistic and perceptual contexts in macaques and rodents. They explore how hierarchical causal inference is implemented in the brain, how beliefs propagate through the network, and how internal states modulate this information flow. Their research focuses on how task-relevant latent variables and multi-sensory signals dynamically flow across brain regions to generate perception and cognition.

Angelaki and her team are interested in understanding the principles that make the human brain superior to man-made machines and AI. Professor, Center for Neural Science and Dept.

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