Functional organisation mammalian visual system
Head of laboratory:
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 in determining the functional properties of neurons in these areas and
- the role of commissural (callosal) connections from homologous areas in the visual cortices of opposite hemisphere, in determining the functional properties of single cortical neurons whose receptive fields are located in the vicinity of representation of the vertical meridian. We approach these problems using physiological techniques such as study the receptive field (both 'classical' and 'extra-classical') properties of single neurones in a given area and selective, reversible inactivation (by cooling) of different visual cortical areas.
