Hiroshi Kawasaki
Professor,Graduate School of Medical Science,Kanazawa University
How do we detect and recognize
visual inputs from the surrounding world? It has been reported
that the visual input is analyzed in the retina and dissociated
into distinct modalities of information such as color,
shape, motion and depth.
The dissociated information is
then transferred to the visual cortex using segregated
parallel neuronal circuits. The next challenge is to understand
how these dissociated information is integrated in the
visual cortex to recognize visual objects.
In this project, we will visualize
the segregated parallel neuronal circuits, and modify neuronal
activities of each circuit to approach this question.
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