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Oliver Layton’s research focuses on how the brain controls behavior and informs the design of better technology. Specifically, he is fascinated by the brain mechanisms and strategies that allow people to effortlessly move through dynamic, complex scenarios, such as walking through Grand Central Station without colliding with people and flying drones through cluttered environments. Oliver is passionate about the liberal arts and interdisciplinary learning, having created a self-determined major in ‘Computational Neuroscience’ at Skidmore College to study the brain from a diversity of perspectives, including Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Mathematics. He went onto graduate school at Boston University, where he became interested in human navigation and developed a large-scale, dynamic neural model that simulates how humans perceive their movement through realistic environments. After earning his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, he joined the Perception and Action Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Postdoctoral Researcher to design virtual reality experiments to better understand human navigation and develop new models of the primate visual system.

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