Michael Berry

Michael Berry is an Associate Professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), Princeton University. His research focuses on understanding how neural microcircuits perform complex computations, particularly in the retina and neocortex.

• Position: Associate Professor
• Department: Princeton Neuroscience Institute
• Email: berry@princeton.edu

Research Interests

• Neural computation in microcircuits
• Predictive coding mechanisms in visual processing
• Population coding and error correction
• Collaborative optical imaging studies with Tank Lab

Lab Overview

The Berry Lab investigates how neuronal populations encode information through collective activity modes, using multi-electrode arrays and theoretical models like Maximum Entropy and Hidden Markov Models.