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Maya received her BS in Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience from UCSD. During herundergraduate science career she focused on hippocampal concept cells in the common marmoset. She joined the Oesch Lab as a research technician in 2019 before being admitted into the lab as an experimental psychology graduate student in 2022. Her work in the Oesch lab focuses on retinal circuit processing following the degeneration of photoreceptors from diseases like Retinitis Pigmentosa and Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Specifically she is interested in how the ON and OFF pathways respond to prosthetic stimulation and the critical role inner retinal inhibition plays in stimulus encoding.
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