Editorial Board

Updated October 2025

Any views expressed are the editors’ own and do not necessarily represent the views of their institution.

Editor-in-Chief

Sabine Kastner
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University

Senior Editors

James Bisley
Department of Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles 

Handling Areas: Cortical visual processing; Motor processing, including cerebellum; Somatosensory system; Vestibular system; Sensorimotor transformations; Attention; Working memory; Perception; Decision-making; Brainstem processing; Non-human primates; Humans; Rodents

 

Jonathan Demb 
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Yale University

Handling Areas: Sensory systems; Visual system; Auditory system; Olfactory system; Gustation; Retina; Fovea; Visual cortex; Retinal disease; Sensory adaptation; Human; Primate; Rodent; Mouse; Invertebrate; Drosophila

 

Alyson Fournier
McGill University

Handling Areas: Neurodegenerative disease; Axon degeneration; Neuroinflammation; Axon regeneration; Alzheimer’s Disease; Parkinson’s Disease; ALS; Multiple sclerosis; Spinal cord injury; Traumatic nerve injury; Stroke; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; Demyelination and remyelination; Optic nerve injury; miRNA; Fluid biomarkers of degeneration; Cellular and molecular neuroscience; Rodent and mouse models; iPSCs

 

Artur Kania
Neural Circuit Development Laboratory
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Handling Areas: Neuronal development; Molecular and cellular neuroscience; Neuronal cell biology; Neural circuit function; Spinal cord function and injury; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurodegeneration; Pain (acute and chronic); Somatosensation

 

Anna Christina Nobre
Department of Psychology
Yale University

Handling Areas: Human neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Perception, Attention, Working memory, Executive function, Memory, language, Decision-making, Timing, Temporal expectation, Motor neuroscience, Affective neuroscience, Social neuroscience, Aging, Neurodegeneration, Psychiatric disorders

 

Jonas Obleser
Department of Psychology
University of Lübeck

Handling Areas: Human neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience; Neural dynamics; Perception; Attention; Audition; Animal models of cognition; Aging; Hearing loss; Language; Speech; Computational neuroscience; Metacognition; Computational psychiatry; Neurology; Methodological advances

 

Linda Overstreet-Wadiche
Department of Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Handling Areas: Cellular and synaptic physiology; Plasticity; Adult neurogenesis; Stem cells; GABAergic interneurons and inhibition; Ionotropic and metabotropic receptors; Ion channel and transporter biophysics; Hippocampus; Cerebellum; Circadian biology; Neurodevelopment; Synaptogenesis; Epilepsy

 

Kate Wassum
School of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles

Handling Areas: Learning & Memory; Associative learning; Decision making; Habit behavior; Amygdala; Striatum; Orbitofrontal cortex; Dopamine

 

Deputy Editor: Rober E. Boshra

Features Editor: Teresa Esch

Reviewing Editors

 

Heather Cameron
National Institute of Mental Health
Interests: Neurogenesis; Hippocampus; Dentate gyrus; Granule cells; Stress; Glucocorticoids; Anxiety; Depression; Motivation

 

Jianhua Cang
Department of Biology and Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Interests: Visual neuroscience; Early visual processing; Experience-dependent development; Critical period plasticity; Neural circuits; Superior colliculus; Visual cortex, rodents and tree shrews

 

Jun Chen
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests: Stroke; Traumatic brain injury; Vascular dementia; White matter injury; Cognitive impairment; Parkinson’s disease; Neuroinflammation; Microglia; Macrophages; Brain repair; Demyelination; Remyelination; Blood–brain barrier damage; Endothelia cells

 

Laura Corbit
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Interests: Associative learning; Instrumental learning; Decision-making; Motivation; Reward; Addiction and punishment; Habits; Pavlovian conditioning;& Extinction;& Striatum;& Noradrenaline; Obesity

 

Serena Dudek
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
Interests: Synaptic plasticity; Hippocampus; Glucocorticoids; Nuclear hormone receptors; Development; Critical periods; Sex differences; Developmental disorders

 

Tatiana Engel
Princeton University
Interests: Computational and theoretical neuroscience; Neural population dynamics; Neural circuit models; Cognitive functions; Decision-making; Selective attention; Working memory; Brain states; Perception

 

Ian Fiebelkorn
Department of Neuroscience
University of Rochester

 

Interests: Cognitive and systems neuroscience; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual perception; Multisensory integration; Neurophysiology; Temporal dynamics; Oscillations

 

Thorsten Kahnt
Department of Neurology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Interests: Cognitive and computational neuroscience; Decision-making; Reward; Olfaction; Associative and reinforcement learning; Dopamine; Orbitofrontal cortex; Midbrain; Striatum; Hippocampus

 

Peter Kok
University College London
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience; Perception; Vision; Prediction; Visual Cortex; Top-down modulation of sensory cortex; Predictive Processing; Hippocampus; Subjective perception

 

Michael Lazarus
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
University of Tsukuba
Interests: Sleep; Sleep disorders; Mesolimbic reward system; Hypothalamus; Brain-body interaction; Thermoregulation; Neuroimmunology

 

Angelika Lingnau
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Regensburg
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience; Perception and action; Action observation; Cognitive and neural organization of high-level vision; Lateral occipito-temporal cortex; Visual imagery; FMRI; Multivariate pattern analysis; Representational similarity analysis

 

Mary Kay Lobo
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests: Basal ganglia; Reward circuit; Striatum; Nucleus accumbens; Ventral pallidum; Transcriptome; Mitochondria; Stress; Drug abuse; Repetitive behaviors

 

Margaret M. McCarthy
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests: Sex difference; Preoptic area; Amygdala; Microglia; Synapses; Steroids; Hormones; Progesterone; Estradiol; Estrogens; Hypoxic ischemia; Autism; Sex behavior; Endocannabinoids; Epigenetics; Neuroinflammation; Development; Cerebellum; Neuroimmunology; Neurological disorders; Brain injury

 

David McKemy
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Interests: Pain; Nociception; Thermosensation; Spinal cord; Trigeminal ganglia; Dorsal root ganglia; Ion channels; Allodynia; Hyperalgesia; Sensitization; Sensory signaling

 

Timothy O’Leary
University of Cambridge
Interests: Theoretical and computational neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Homeostasis; Cellular physiology; Neural networks; Network dynamics and neuromodulation; Central pattern generators; Brain–machine interfaces; Spike-based computation

 

Amy Orsborn
University of Washington
Interests: Electrophysiology; Non-human primates; Electrocorticography; Multi-electrode array recordings; Optogenetics; Electromyography; Human motor psychophysics

 

Matt Rasband
Baylor College of Medicine
Interests: Axon biology; Myelin; Axon-glia interactions; Cytoskeleton; Ion channels; Microscopy and imaging; Proteomics; Nerve injury

 

Erin Rich
Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Learning; Working memory; Value-based decision-making; Strategies; Social behavior; Prefrontal cortex; Orbitofrontal cortex; Anterior cingulate cortex

 

Erik Roberson
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; Frontotemporal dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; Hyperexcitability; Mouse models; Hippocampus; Lysosome dysfunction

 

Monica Rosenberg
The University of Chicago
Interests: Attention; Memory; Naturalistic neuroscience; Network neuroscience; Adolescent development

 

William Stacey
University of Michigan
Interests: Epilepsy; Engineering; Signal processing; Machine learning; Computational modeling; Data science; Brain stimulation; Clinical neurology

 

Mark Stopfer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Interests: Insect; Invertebrate; Olfaction; Gustation; Taste; Odor; Circuits; Information

 

János Szabadics
HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine
Interests: Hippocampus; Neocortex; Neuronal excitability; Voltage-gated ionic channel; Action potentials; Synaptic physiology; Synaptic connectivity; Cell type-specific functions; Axonal signaling; Dendritic integration; In vitro electrophysiology; Voltage imaging; Calcium imaging; Cellular neuroanatomy

 

Vincent Tropepe
University of Toronto
Interests: Neurogenesis; Developmental genetics; Epigenetics; Gene expression; Neural stem cells; Retina; Brain; Regeneration; plasticity; Zebrafish

 

Anastasios Tzingounis
University of Connecticut
Interests: Ion channels; Transporters; Potassium channels; Neuronal excitability; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Epilepsy; Autism spectrum disorders; Neocortex; Hippocampus; Brainstem; Electrophysiology; Whole cell patch clamp; Two-electrode voltage-clamp; Calcium imaging; Mass spectroscopy and proteomics

 

Kerry Walker
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
University of Oxford
Interests: Audition; Auditory cortex; Attention; Pitch; Timbre; Hearing Loss; Perception; Neural coding; Multisensory

 

Ying Zhang
Department of Medical Neuroscience
Dalhousie University
Interests: Sensory-motor control; Neural circuits; Neurodegeneration; Neurodevelopment (neuronal diversification); Spinal cord injury; Neuron-muscular diseases
 

 

 

Elana Zion Golumbic
Gonda Center for Brain Research
Bar Ilan University
Interests: Human cognitive neuroscience; Real-world neuroscience; Speech processing; Attention; Rhythm and timing; Dynamic and multisensory perception

Associate Editors

Claude Alain
Andrew Arrant
Stefania Bracci
Adam Carter
Alex Clarke
Michael Cohen
Philip Corlett
Stephanie Correa
Andre Cravo
Theresa Desrochers
Gregory Dussor
Paul Dux
Stephanie Gupton
Corey Harwell
Randolph Helfrich
Jochen Herms
Alicia Izquierdo
Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel
Thomas Kash
Anne Keitel
Mazen Kheirbek
Brice Kuhl
Julie Lefebvre
Julia Lemos
Sarah London
Jamie Maguire
Stephen Mahler
Andrea Martin
Lars Meyer
Meghan Meyer
Nicholas Meyers
Jude Mitchell
Laurel Morris
Anna Orr
Anthony Peng
Andrew Pruszynski
Jason Pugh
MengSheng Qiu
Angela Radulescu
Alon Rubin
Peter Rudebeck
Viji Santhakumar
Dori Schafer
Jaclyn Schwarz
Juan Song
Henning Sprekeler
Alexis Stranahan
Deborah Talmi
Arielle Tambini
Jeffrey Tasker
Jessica Tollkuhn
Katalin Toth
Lucina Uddin
Freek van Ede
Stephen Van Hooser
Felix Viana
Kaspar Vogt
Trent Watkins
Catherine Weisz
Andrew Westbrook
Maria Wimber
Malte Wöstmann
Junqian Xu
Benedikt Zoefel