Jakob Voigts is a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. His lab uses naturalistic spatial behaviors to study how the brain sequentially builds models of the world and uses them to make sense of ambiguous information.
Jakob Voigts
Group leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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