Brain Mechanisms of Visual Motion Processing
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Air date: Monday, February 02, 2009, 12:00:00 PM
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Description: Prof. Movshon studies how the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. He studies the function and development of the primate visual system (especially the cortex), combining neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and psychophysics. His recent studies have concentrated on (1) understanding the mechanisms that generate signals about the direction of visual motion, and how these signals are used to support psychophysical decisions. (2) Analysis of the functional development of the cortical visual system in monkeys, and the way that development is affected by forms of abnormal early visual experience that produce amblyopia.

Selected Publications:

C. Rust, O. Schwartz, E. P. Simoncelli and J. A. Movshon (2005). Spatiotemporal elements of macaque V1 receptive fields. Neuron 46: 945-956.

M.A. Smith, W. Bair and J.A. Movshon (2006). Dynamics of suppression in macaque V1. Journal of Neuroscience 26: 4826-4834.

M. Jazayeri and J. A. Movshon (2006). Optimal representation of sensory information by neural populations. Nature Neuroscience 9: 690-696.

N.C. Rust, V. Mante, E.P. Simoncelli and J.A. Movshon (2006). How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns. Nature Neuroscience 9: 1421-1431.

M. Jazayeri and J. A. Movshon (2007). A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature 446: 912-915.

For more information see our website - NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series
Author: J. Anthony Movshon, Ph.D., Center of Neural Science, New York University
Runtime: 75 minutes
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