Professor Dr. Pamela Reinagel

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Biography

Pam Reinagel received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University. She has conducted postdoctoral research in theoretical neuroscience under Christof Koch at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and in experimental neuroscience with R. Clay Reid at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Reinagel is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship and began her lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2003. Her research focuses on the perceptually guided selection of action in visually behaving rats, examining both neural mechanisms through lesions and pharmacology, and the behavioral outcomes such as reward-motivated choices in the face of sensory uncertainty. Currently, her lab investigates the speed-accuracy trade-off in visual discriminations and blindsight, characterizing visual decision-making processes that depend on or are independent of the primary visual cortex in rats.

Research Interests

Perceptually Guided Action Computational Models Visual Behavior Reward-Motivated Choice Speed-Accuracy Trade-off Visual Discriminations Blindsight Neural Mechanisms

Experience

Professor

2003-01-01 — Present

University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA

Leads research on perceptually guided selection of action in visually behaving rats.

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program

Requirements

GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120

Prerequisites

Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.

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  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)

Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).