Perception and Action Mission Statement
We investigate how perception and intelligent behavior arise from brain activity. We focus on the visual and oculomotor systems to answer questions such as:
- How do we make perceptual decisions?
- How do we choose what to look at?
- How are voluntary movements initiated?
- What is the neural basis of directed visual attention?
- How do our individual experiences, memories and goals affect these processes?
To understand how subjective perception and voluntary motor actions emerge from brain activity we record neural activity in the brains of monkeys performing visual search and multi-choice discrimination tasks.
| Staff | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Kirk G. Thompson | Section Chief | kgt@lsr.nei.nih.gov |
| Jason Trageser | Post Doctoral Fellow | trageserj@nei.nih.gov |
