Julia Gorman

Julia Gorman is a PhD student in Neurosciences at UC San Diego in the Gentner lab. She studies how neural population dynamics flexibly generate learned behaviors, using songbirds as a model for vocal communication. Combining large-scale electrophysiology with dynamical-systems analyses, Julia examines how internal expectations and sensory evidence shape low-dimensional trajectories during auditory decisions and how these trajectories relate to perception. In parallel, she investigates sensorimotor sequence generation by dissecting interactions between premotor and motor regions and links circuit coupling to behavioral output. Her intersts in CARTA are in understanding the evolution of vocal learning.