Stephen Cowen
Stephen Cowen
Associate Professor, Cognition/Neural Systems
Director, Decision Making and Learning Laboratory
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Psychology 442 (Office)
Life Sciences North 347 (Lab)
Pronouns:
He, Him, His
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Research Interests:
Selected Publications:
- Cowen S.L., Nitz D.A. (2014) Repeating Firing Fields of CA1 Neurons Shift Forward in Response to Increasing Angular Velocity, Journal of Neuroscience, 34(1):232-41.
- Miller M.A., Thomé A, Cowen S.L. (2013) Intersection of Effort and Risk: Ethological and Neurobiological Perspectives, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:208.
- Cowen S.L., Davis G.A., Nitz D.A. (2012) Anterior cingulate neurons in the rat map anticipated effort and reward to their associated action sequences. Journal of Neurophysiology 107(9):2393–2407.
- Cowen, S.L. and McNaughton, B.L (2007) Selective delay activity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat: The contribution of sensory-motor information and contingency. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(1):303-16.
- Maurer, A.P., Cowen, S.L., Burke, S.N., Barnes, C.A. and McNaughton, B.L. (2006) Phase precession in hippocampal interneurons showing strong functional coupling to individual pyramidal cells. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26:13485-13492.
Courses Taught:
- PSY 230 - Measurement & Statistics (2020)
- PSY 313 - Drugs and the Brain (2023)
- PSY 506A - Neural Encoding, Memory, & Computation in the Mammalian Brain (2019)
- PSY 510 - Graduate Statistics Fundamentals (2021)
*Year listed indicates when this individual last taught the specified course.
Updated: 09/05/23
Degree(s)
- Ph.D.