What songbirds can teach us about learning and the brain: Mimi Kao at TEDxCaltech

Mimi Kao is a postdoctoral fellow in neurobiology in the laboratory of Dr. Allison Doupe at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her undergraduate degree in Human Biology and East Asian Studies from Stanford. After pursuing a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies at Harvard, she received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCSF. Her central interest is in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying learning using an animal model system specialized for vocal motor learning. Mimi has rec