Adult and Developing Visual System Group - Honours in 2009
An Honours project undertaken in this lab would be administered by the Discipline of Anatomy & Histology.
Functional organisation of the visual system
Supervisor + contact details:
- Professor Bogdan Dreher
Work in our lab focuses on:
- The role of the so-called "feedback" projections from the "higher-order" visual cortical areas to the "lower-order" visual areas (including the primary visual cortices) and subcortical visual nuclei and
- The spatial extent and mechanisms underlying the reorganization of visual cortices following circumscribed lesions of the retina in adult or adolescent mammals.
We approach these problems using physiological techniques, in particular, studying the receptive field ( both "classical" and "extra-classical") properties of single neurones in a given area: selective, reversible inactivation of different visual cortical areas; cross-correlation analysis of discharges of individual cells located in a given area or in the neighbouring areas.
