Position Title
Professor
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Computer Science
- Center for Neuroscience
Professor O'Reilly develops computational and formal models of the biological bases of cognition (computational cognitive neuroscience). His group focuses on specialization of function in and interactions between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia and posterior neocortex in learning, memory, attention and controlled processing. He tests predictions from these models using a range of behavioral and other experimental techniques.
He has authored over 70 journal articles and an influential textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience. Professor O'Reilly has received significant funding from ONR, NIH, NSF, IARPA, and DARPA. He is a primary author of the Emergent neural network simulation environment. O’Reilly completed a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and was awarded an A.B. degree with highest honors in Psychology from Harvard University.
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