Arbora Resulaj

Arbora Resulaj

Assistant Professor
✅ Accepting Graduate Students

About Dr. Resulaj

Dr. Resulaj's research is focused on understanding how neural circuits enable perception, memory and decision-making. She received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, where she was a student in the Cambridge-Janelia Ph.D. program. She worked with Drs. Daniel Wolpert and Michael Shadlen to combine theoretical approaches and experimental findings to study decision-making in humans. She then worked with Dr. Dmitry Rinberg to develop tools and methods to study the timing of olfactory perceptual decisions in mice. Dr. Resulaj’s postdoctoral work was with Dr. Massimo Scanziani at UCSF and Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg at UCLA where she studied visual decision-making. Her current work is focused on developing methods to study short term memory in mice.

Research

The lab’s research is focused on understanding how neural circuits enable perception, memory, and decision-making. Using mice as a model system, Dr. Resulaj’s lab currently uses techniques and approaches such as electrophysiology, behaviour, and optogenetics to study short term memory, and its role in visual cognition.

Lab Opportunities

We are currently recruiting Graduate Students. Interested applicants should email Dr. Resulaj directly (arbora.resulaj@utoronto.ca).

Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Resulaj A., Ruediger S., Olsen S.R. & Scanziani M. First spikes in visual cortex enable perceptual discrimination. eLife 7, e34044 (2018).
  • Resulaj, A., Kiani, R., Wolpert, D. M. & Shadlen, M. N. Changes of mind in decision-making. Nature 461, 263–266 (2009).   

ALL PUBLICATIONS

  • Reinhold* K, Resulaj* A. & Scanziani M. Brain State-Dependent Modulation of Thalamic Visual Processing by Cortico-thalamic Feedback. Journal of Neuroscience (2023) (*co-first author).
  • Resulaj A. Projections of the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 15, 751331 (2021).
  • Resulaj A., Ruediger S., Olsen S.R. & Scanziani M. First spikes in visual cortex enable perceptual discrimination. eLife 7, e34044 (2018).
  • Resulaj, A. & Rinberg, D. Novel Behavioral Paradigm Reveals Lower Temporal Limits on Mouse Olfactory Decisions. J Neurosci 35, 11667–11673 (2015).
  • Resulaj, A., Kiani, R., Wolpert, D. M. & Shadlen, M. N. Changes of mind in decision-making. Nature 461, 263–266 (2009).