jorge yanar

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Hello! I'm a PhD candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, working in the lab of Carlos Brody. My research focuses on the mechanisms the brain uses to store and operate on continuous values in working memory.

Prior to my PhD, I did two years of post-bacccalaureate research in Earl Miller's lab at MIT. There I contributed to work examining the causal role of the thalamus in maintaining anesthetic and conscious states in non-human primates. I did my undergraduate at Loyola University Chicago, where I studied markers of human brain aging with Robert G. Morrison and majored in physics.

Outside of research, I enjoy drawing and programming small games. Recent projects include a 3D renderer, a roguelike playable in the browser, and a platformer written in Go.