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Thomas A. Cleland     (WEB PAGE) tac29 @ cornell.edu 244 Uris Hall      607-255-8099   [edit] Faculty associated with: Christiane Linster,   Ann Marie McNamara Department: Psychology Field: Cognitive Science; Neurobiology and Behavior; Psychology Keywords: Behavioral genetics (7), Behavioral Neuroscience (9), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Computational Neuroscience (13), Learning and Memory (13), Mathematical Modeling (14), Mouse (11), Neuromodulation (12), Neurophysiology (5), Olfaction (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) Neuroscience-related courses taught Instructor: BIONB 420-04: Behavioral phenotyping of mutant mice Instructor: PSYCH 434/634: Sensory Construction Instructor: PSYCH 444: Neural Computation My research concerns how complex cognitive and perceptual phenomena can arise from, and be regulated by, cellular and neural circuit properties. Primarily using the sense of smell (olfaction), my students, colleagues, and I ask how learning, memory, expectation, and like processes shape the transformations performed on sensory inputs by relatively peripheral (i.e., experimentally accessible) cortical circuitry, and how these different transformations in turn influence behavior and subsequent learning. We triangulate on these questions using a range of techniques including electrophysiology, pharmacology, behavior and behavior genetics, and biophysically constrained computational modeling.

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