Interactive intelligent behavior

The Steel Lab seeks to understand how interactions between the brain's distributed networks give rise to intelligent behavior, and how this breaks down in aging, neurological, and psychiatric disorders.

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Research Themes

Perception and Memory Interaction

How brain systems interact during natural behavior

Neural Coding Principles

Discovering codes that structure brain-wide communication

Plasticity and Brain Change

Understanding how neural systems learn, change, and adapt

Recent Highlights

2024

A retinotopic code structures perception and memory interactions

Steel, A., Silson, E. H., Garcia, B. D., & Robertson, C. E.

Nature Neuroscience

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2025

Relating scene memory and perception activity to functional properties, networks, and landmarks of posterior cerebral cortex

Steel, A., Prasad, D., Garcia, B. D., & Robertson, C. E.

Journal of Neuroscience

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2021

A network linking scene perception and spatial memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex

Steel, A., Billings, M. M., Silson, E. H., & Robertson, C. E.

Nature Communications

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Lab Location

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 N Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

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