Who am I?Who am I?
I am an Assistant Professor at UC Davis in the Psychology Department and Center for Mind and Brain.
Visit my Center for Mind and Brain page here or
my lab homepage.
In the fall of '96 I taught an animal behavior class at my alma mater, Reed College, after which I did a post-doc in Dan Margoliash's lab at the University of Chicago studying how birds learn to sing.
From 2000 until 2004 I was in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College as research faculty. During my time at Dartmouth my main collaborators were Barbara Tillmann and Jamshed Bharucha.
My research interests are primarily in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and
neuroethology.
I use music as a model system for studying the neural basis of auditory
attention, imagery, and memory; in particular the ways in which these
general functions support the formation and evaluation of
expectancies.
I use a variety of tools in my work including electrophysiological recordings (single-unit, EEG, ERP), functional brain imaging (fMRI), behavioral measures, and computational modeling.
When I'm not working, chances are that I am off skiing!
In October 2003, I had the amazing experience of skiing on sand dunes in Qatar
and 4 days later skiing knee-deep powder in Austria
e-mail: pjanata at ucdavis dot edu
phone: 530 297 4471
FAX: 530 792 1489
Page created: August, 1994
Last modified:
May 30, 2006