For many years Robert
Sekuler has worked on problems relevant to human
visual perception and memory. His lab has done a
combination of behavior, recordings of intracranial
EEGs, and modeling, including work involving recent
IGERT trainees. József
Fiser does experimental work on humans and ferrets,
as well as theoretical work. A fascinating set of
projects coming from Fiser's work involve quantitative
calculations of the extent to which sensory information
determines the patterns of activity in cortex and
the extent to which internally generated activity
determines the information processing in visual
cortex.
Fiser has several planned collaborations with Donald
Katz and Gina
Turrigiano to record the effects of visual and
other experience on activity recorded from cortex
in behaving ferrets, mice and rats.The work in mice
is designed to eventually exploit the classification
of cortical neurons in mice and rats from Nelson's
work.
