Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Alex Garcia joins PREP@UCDavis from UC Santa Barbara, graduating with a degree in Biopsychology. Previously he studied how eye movements changed with age and even sleep deprivation at NASA Ames to develop better diagnostic tools. As an undergraduate, he completed a senior thesis addressing the question of how the Orbitofrontal cortex is involved in context-dependent learning. At UC Davis he will join the Wilsaan Joiner lab to study how limbs coordinate to accomplish a goal, thus gaining insight into how the brain learns and adapts new motor movements.