Kay Lab

I received my BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then worked for the original GenBank project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I was a programmer/analyst in business applications for a number of years in the mid- to late eighties, and then returned to graduate school at UC Berkeley, where I did my dissertation research in the laboratory of Walter J. Freeman and received my PhD in Biophysics. I conducted postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilles Laurent at the California Institute of Technology, where I studied olfactory bulb mitral cell responses to changes in odor context. My laboratory at The University of Chicago studies olfactory and limbic system neurophysiology, focusing on odor psychophysics and the mechanisms and functions associated with intra- and inter-regional oscillatory cooperativity. In particular, we are interested in how the context of a stimulus affects how the stimulus is sensed, perceived, and processed by brains and individuals.

• Department of Psychology, and The College
• Integrative Neuroscience in the Dept. of Psychology
• Committee on Computational Neuroscience
• Committee on Neurobiology
• Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS)
• Master of Arts program in Computational Social Science (MACSS)

Leslie M Kay, PhD, PI
Professor, Department of Psychology
The University of Chicago

lkay [at] uchicago [dot] edu  |   CV