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Manu Madhav is an engineer and roboticist turned neuroscientist, serving as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Neural Circuits and Cognition Control. His research focuses on the role of neural circuits in memory. The NC4 lab, where he conducts his work, records how neurons encode signals, analyzing place cells and grid cells in rodents as they perform tasks in virtual reality. Madhav constructs custom large-scale apparatuses that facilitate free rodent behavior alongside electrophysiological recordings. Additionally, he performs behavioral experiments with human participants navigating virtual environments to understand the aspects of degradation associated with normative aging and dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.