Aaron Batista
University of Pittsburgh
Biography
Aaron Batista is professor of bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His lab is dedicated to understanding how the brain controls action, focusing on how learning and context shape arm movements. Using a neural-populations approach, the group records the activity of dozens of neurons in cerebral cortex simultaneously and examines how their joint activity sculpts behavior. As part of SCENE, the lab is examining neural activity during skilled behaviors that involve precise sensorimotor coordination.
Research Interests
- motor cortex
- neural population dynamics
- brain-computer interfaces
- motor learning
- dimensionality reduction
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)