About the Wallis Lab

We are part of the Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. Our research focuses on understanding the functional organization of the frontal cortex at the single neuron level. Our methods use sophisticated behavioral paradigms, multichannel recording and computational analysis of neuronal data. We aim to understand the neuronal mechanisms underlying a number of high-level cognitive and behavioral processes, including decision-making, learning and working memory. The goal of our research is to guide the development of the next generation of treatments for mental illness.

Lab news

Dec 2012: Congratulations to Chung-Hay. Her paper on stimulus-guided and action-guided choice has just been accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience.

Mar 2012: Erin was awarded a fellowship from the Hilda and Preston Davis foundation. Her research will investigate the neural computations that may underlie eating disorders.

Feb 2012: Antonio has published the lab's first ever paper in the Journal of Vision.









Nov 2011: "Cross-species studies of orbitofrontal cortex and value-based decision-making" published in Nature Neuroscience.

Oct 2011: Press release about our research:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/30/addicted-brain/

Oct 2011: "Double dissociation of value computations in orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate neurons" published in Nature Neuroscience.