Research Interests:
Our overarching goal is to understand how cell assemblies are created, maintained, and modified in the neocortical mantle. This pursuit has pushed us towards the use of ethologically relevant stimuli and testing paradigms, since we would like to tap into what brains are doing and not just what they can do. We also contrast stimulus-driven neural responses (reflecting a neural representation of objects in the environment) with internally-generated responses (like memory traces), which involves recording spontaneous activity and activity during sleep. While this places our research in fields as diverse as face perception, learning and plasticity, neural population coding, and sleep, the projects listed above are interrelated and often are conducted within the same behavioral or electrophysiological recording sessions.
Our overarching goal is to understand how cell assemblies are created, maintained, and modified in the neocortical mantle. This pursuit has pushed us towards the use of ethologically relevant stimuli and testing paradigms, since we would like to tap into what brains are doing and not just what they can do. We also contrast stimulus-driven neural responses (reflecting a neural representation of objects in the environment) with internally-generated responses (like memory traces), which involves recording spontaneous activity and activity during sleep. While this places our research in fields as diverse as face perception, learning and plasticity, neural population coding, and sleep, the projects listed above are interrelated and often are conducted within the same behavioral or electrophysiological recording sessions.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate Professor
Center for Vision Research
Dept. of Psychology, Biology
York University
Phone: 416 736 2100 x22932
Fax: 416 736 5814
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Center for Vision Research
Dept. of Psychology, Biology
York University
Phone: 416 736 2100 x22932
Fax: 416 736 5814
[email protected]