Paul Middlebrooks is special faculty research associate at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies how motor cortex and basal ganglia neural population activity underlies naturalistic behaviors in freely behaving mice. He is also creator of the podcast “Brain Inspired,” and its host since 2018.
Middlebrooks received his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in the lab of Marc Sommer. Subsequently, he undertook postdoctoral research at Vanderbilt University in the labs of Jeffrey Schall, Geoff Woodman, and Gordon Logan.