Dr. Alessandro La Chioma is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. David Schneider at the Center for Neural Science. His current work explores the sensory-motor circuits important for predicting the acoustic consequences of our actions and how these predictions change as a function of context. To this goal, he combines electrical and optical recordings as mice engage in multi-sensory virtual reality systems. Previously, Alessandro received his B.S. and M.S in neurobiology from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, after a research internship in the lab of Daniel Choquet in Bordeaux, France. Then, he moved to Germany to obtain a PhD in neurobiology working with Mark Hübener and Tobias Bonhoeffer at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried. There he studied visual processing in the mouse using two-photon calcium imaging and discovered that signals from both eyes are integrated to form visual depth representations of the world that are distinct across areas of the visual cortex. Before moving to New York, he did a “sabbatical” postdoc in the computational group of Dr. Kenji Doya at OIST in Okinawa, Japan.
