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Leslie M. Kay is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and pursued her PhD in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, under the mentorship of Walter J. Freeman III. Following her doctoral studies, she conducted postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilles Laurent at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on olfactory bulb mitral cell responses and their adaptation to changes in odor context. Her research interests encompass roles in context perception, olfactory neurophysiology, cognitive processes linked to olfaction, and sensorimotor integration. Dr. Kay's laboratory investigates the influence of behavioral context on the neurophysiology of the olfactory limbic system, with a specific emphasis on inter-regional oscillatory cooperativity in rat olfactory systems. Kay has published extensively in prominent journals, contributing to the fields of behavioral neuroscience and computational neuroscience.
Department of Philosophy