Brief Biography
Naoshige Uchida is an assistant professor at the Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. He did his graduate studies on molecular mechanisms of synaptic adhesions in Masatoshi Takeichi`s laboratory at Kyoto University, Japan. He started studies on olfactory coding in Kensaku Mori`s laboratory at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan. He then joined Zachary Mainen`s laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA, where he started psychophysical experiments using rodent olfactory decision tasks. He studies neural mechanisms of sensory coding, decision making, and reward-based learning and memory using rodent psychophysics and multi-electrode recordings.