Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.
My research interests are in identifiying the neural dynamical systems mediating decision-making and goal-directed behavior on the basis of uni- and multisensory inputs. My research interests are best illustrated by an example. For instance, what are the neural mechanisms which allow one to press the brakes when the stop light turns red and the gas pedal when the light turns green.
As a PhD student with Asif Ghazanfar at Princeton, I examined how information from visual and auditory cues are combined, a process termed multisensory integration. Before that I was a masters student at the international Max Planck Research School at the University of Tübingen in Germany. I worked with Ian Thornton, Tony Gummer , Martin Giese and Zoe Kourtzi. I also had fun being a programmer with Nikos Logothetis before I moved to Princeton to work with Asif.
Being an academic means a peripatetic lifestyle. I have had the pleasure of living in beautiful academic settings such as Tübingen, Princeton and Stanford for a few years. Much of my time is spent in my lab.
Other Positions
- Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Education
- Princeton University, PhD
- Princeton University, MA
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, MS
- University of Madras, BSc
Publications
- Published on 2/4/2025
Hasnain MA, Birnbaum JE, Ugarte Nunez JL, Hartman EK, Chandrasekaran C, Economo MN. Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Mar; 28(3):640-653. PMID: 39905210.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/16/2023
Boucher PO, Wang T, Carceroni L, Kane G, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C. Initial conditions combine with sensory evidence to induce decision-related dynamics in premotor cortex. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 16; 14(1):6510. PMID: 37845221.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/25/2023
Genkin M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C, Engel TA. The dynamics and geometry of choice in premotor cortex. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 25. PMID: 37546748.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/14/2023
Kleinman M, Wang T, Xiao D, Feghhi E, Lee K, Carr N, Li Y, Hadidi N, Chandrasekaran C, Kao JC. A cortical information bottleneck during decision-making. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 14. PMID: 37502862.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/22/2023
Lee K, Carr N, Perliss A, Chandrasekaran C. WaveMAP for identifying putative cell types from in vivo electrophysiology. STAR Protoc. 2023 May 22; 4(2):102320. PMID: 37220000.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/6/2021
Lee EK, Balasubramanian H, Tsolias A, Anakwe SU, Medalla M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C. Non-linear dimensionality reduction on extracellular waveforms reveals cell type diversity in premotor cortex. Elife. 2021 08 06; 10. PMID: 34355695.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/20/2021
Peixoto D, Verhein JR, Kiani R, Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Chandrasekaran C, Brown J, Fong S, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV, Newsome WT. Decoding and perturbing decision states in real time. Nature. 2021 03; 591(7851):604-609. PMID: 33473215.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/5/2019
O'Shea DJ, Kalanithi P, Ferenczi EA, Hsueh B, Chandrasekaran C, Goo W, Diester I, Ramakrishnan C, Kaufman MT, Ryu SI, Yeom KW, Deisseroth K, Shenoy KV. Publisher Correction: Development of an optogenetic toolkit for neural circuit dissection in squirrel monkeys. Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 05; 9(1):18775. PMID: 31801956.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/23/2019
Casas JP, Chandrasekaran C. openEyeTrack - A high speed multi-threaded eye tracker for head-fixed applications. J Open Source Softw. 2019; 4(42). PMID: 34222770.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/3/2019
Chandrasekaran C, Hawkins GE. ChaRTr: An R toolbox for modeling choices and response times in decision-making tasks. J Neurosci Methods. 2019 12 01; 328:108432. PMID: 31586868.
Read at: PubMed
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