Professor Dr. Annegret Falkner

Biography

Annegret Falkner is an Assistant Professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Her research focuses on behavioral choice, exploring how current environment and past experiences influence social interactions. Specifically, her lab studies the relationship between social experience, internal states, and sensory perception, aiming to understand how these factors impact behavioral decision-making. The lab investigates the brain's 'social decision-making network', which includes evolutionarily conserved areas such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, and midbrain, and how they process social and sensory information to drive social behaviors. Using genetic tools and various physiological techniques, including optical recording strategies in mice, the lab examines changes in neural activity and function resulting from experience and influences from neuromodulation and hormones.

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