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Understanding how the 
brain transforms 
perception into meaning. 

LCND combines intracranial electrophysiology, computational neuroscience, machine learning, and biomarkers to study the neural dynamics of perception, cognition, and behavior. 

RESEARCH AREAS

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Real-World Vision

Neural mechanisms of perception and behavior in natural enviroments.

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Brain& Body
Interactions

Neural responses correlated with biomarker molecules detected by novel wearable technologies. 

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Brain Dynamics
Across Days

How neural states evolve across minutes, hours, and days.

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Computational Methods

Machine learning, neural dynamics, network analysis, and the creation of new methods and tools. 

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Social & Affective
Perception

Neural coding of faces, emotion, bodies, and social information.

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Visual Recognition

How the brain recognizes faces, objects, and words

ABOUT LCND

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Founded in 2011 by Dr. Avniel Ghuman, PhD, the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurodynamics (LCND) is based in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. We use computational approaches and intracranial electrophysiology (iEEG) to investigate the dynamics of human brain networks and how they support perception, cognition, and behavior.

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Our team brings together researchers with backgrounds spanning machine learning and artificial intelligence, mathematics, statistics, experimental psychology, biology, biophysics, neuroscience, and data science. This interdisciplinary perspective allows us to combine experimental and computational approaches to unlock the organization and dynamics of the human brain.

2026

MB Wang, M G’Sell, RM Richardson, and AS Ghuman (In Press). A Week in the Life of the Human Brain: Stable States Punctuated by Chaotic-Like Transitions. Nature Communications.

2026

AS Ghuman, JA Fiez, and MJ Boring (2026). The Reading Brain – Transforming Vision into Language. Progress in Neurobiology. 260, 102894.

2026

CA Mackey, K Duecker, S Neymotin, S Dura-Bernal, S Haegens, A Barczak, MN O’Connell, SR Jones, M Ding, AS Ghuman, and CE Schroeder (2026). Is There a Ubiquitous Spectrolaminar Motif of Local Field Potential Power Across Primate Neocortex? Nature Neuroscience. 29, 279-283.

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NEWS

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04/15/2026

AWARD

LCND receives BRAIN initiative award

The lab receives a Brain, Behavior, Quantification, and Synchronization award from the BRAIN Initiative for A Day in the Life of the Human Brain: Investigating the Dynamic Interrelationship Between Brain, Co… in collaboration with Drs. John Rogers and Joseph Neimat from the National Institutes of Health.

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