ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Detailed Cortical Mechanisms of Top-Down Visual Processing
What we see depends on what we have in mind. For example, we can quickly find tomatoes in the vegetable department of a supermarket by searching for red and round objects, making them stand out from the background. This is thought to be supported by top-down processing within the hierarchy of areas in the visual cortex, but the detailed neural mechanisms are still poorly understood, partly because of limitations in neural recording technologies. In my lab, we recently developed a three-photon microscope capable of visualizing the activity of large populations of individually-defined neurons in awake and behaving macaque monkeys. Combining this novel imaging modality with well-controlled…
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