STATE-DEPENDENT DECISION MAKING

WE ARE WORKING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BRAIN INTEGRATES INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS TO GENERATE ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORAL OUTPUTS.

research

We use the fruit fly, Drosophila, to examine how well-defined sensory circuits demonstrate both robustness and flexibility required to generate appropriate behavior in the face of changing internal and external environments.

To read more about how we use 'virtual-reality' flight simulators, shown in the videos below,
​to answer these questions, please visit our research page. Want to learn more about all the research being done in the Neuroscience Department at Wellesley? Click here.

what's the buzz?

recent highlights

May 2021:  Daniela Limbania ('21) did a terrific job in the oral defense for her senior honors thesis conducted in the Littleton Lab at MIT!

May 2021:  Daniela Limbania ('21) and Grace Turner ('21) are elected into the scientific research honor society, Sigma Xi! View the nomination ceremony vide here!

March 2021:  Rachel Frazer ('20) is awarded a NSF GRFP to support graduate studies in Neuroscience at Columbia! 

November 2020: The page for the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Communication Symposium (part of the virtual SICB 2021 Meeting) is live! Check out the speaker list here!

August 2020: The lab is awarded a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Neural Systems Cluster!

To read about past news from the lab, please click here.
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lab photos

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