Seminario: "Brain circuits for active vision" (Dra. Sonja Hofer)
Seminario de investigación "Brain circuits for active vision”
Ponente: Dra. Sonja Hofer, Biozentrum, Universidad de Basilea, Suiza
Fecha y hora: Viernes 27 de mayo de 2016, a las 13:00 horas
Lugar: Pagoda de la Facultad de Medicina de la UAM
Our perception of the environment relies on information flow from the sensory organs to the brain. However, perception is also highly dependent on the context in which a given stimulus occurs, such as expectations, intentions and actions. Such contextual information can strongly modulate visual signals and influence how visual stimuli are perceived and interpreted. The talk will cover recent work in the lab on how such contextual signals emerge during learning, how they are integrated with the visual information and by which pathways they might be conveyed, with a focus on thalamo-cortical interactions.