[F02B Roster]
The F02B study section reviews fellowship applications with an emphasis on understanding normal sensory, motor or sensorimotor function, as well as visual, somatosensory and nociceptive information processing, integration of multisensory information, and neural correlates of attention and cognition. Examples of specific subjects addressed by F02B include:
- Studies of motor control in animal models ranging from invertebrates to humans, focusing on cortical, subcortical, and spinal systems underlying locomotion and other motor behaviors utilizing methods ranging from cellular/molecular neurobiology to neurophysiology to human psychophysical and imaging approaches.
Sensorimotor integration, such as studies of the rodent whisker-barrel system, birdsong and studies of proprioception.
Mechanisms of touch, mechanosensation, thermosensation, encoded by somatosensory cortex as well as subcortical and spinal systems, assayed via molecular, anatomical, electrophysiological and behavioral methods.
Mechanisms of pain and analgesia, ranging from studies of primary afferents to spinal circuits to central processes involved in nociception.
Studies of anatomical and neurophysiological substrates of central visual processes, such as object and motion perception, binocular processes and studies of cortical plasticity at cellular and network levels.
Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience, such as studies of attention, face and object perception, motor learning and reward mechanisms using fMRI and other imaging approaches.
Studies of interactions of sensory modalities, such as interactions of auditory and visual systems and investigations of hand-eye coordination.
Fellowship study sections with most closely related areas of similar science are:
Brain Disorders and Related Neuroscience (F01)
Behavioral Neuroscience (F02A)
Biochemical and Molecular Neuroscience (F03A)
Cognition, Language and Perception Fellowship Study Section (F12A)
Psychopathology, Developmental Disabilities, Stress and Aging Fellowship Study Section (F12B)
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