dr Spencer brown

Spencer is a postdoc in the lab who studies the interaction between the cerebellum and hippocampus using a combination of all-optical and neurophysiological recording techniques. He aims to determine how episodic memory influences the execution of motor behaviors and whether the cerebellum plays a role in hippocampal-dependent memory formation and retrieval.

In his previous life he studied the processing of whisker-related inputs by cerebellar Purkinje cells and nuclear cells and its contribution to the generation of whisker movements using single-unit recordings and high-density silicon probes.

Outside of the lab he enjoys hiking in the mountains, fly fishing in the tropics, or reading through microcontroller reference manuals.