Anne Churchland is a Professor in Neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She began her independent research career at Cold Spring Harbor in 2010. The focus of her laboratory is understanding how auditory and visual stimuli are processed by the brain and used to guide decision-making. She combines experimental work with theoretical analysis approaches to make inroads into understanding these decisions. She is also co-founder and executive board member of the International Brain Laboratory, is on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and was a member of the BRAIN2.0 Working Group.