Visual Neuroscience

It is sometimes said that the eye is an extension of the brain. Our faculty research a variety of topics related to the visual neurosciences ranging from processing information in retinal circuits and various areas of the visual cortex, to circadian effects on function, how a decision to look in a certain direction is made and mechanisms underlying visual perception of the world around us.

State-of-the-art approaches include neurophysiological recording techniques and use of optogenetics, 2-photon microscopy, visual psychophysical and behavioral testing paradigms, computational neuroscience approaches and imaging. In addition to human subject studies, rodent, non-human primate and zebrafish models for disease are employed in these investigations.

Faculty in Visual Neuroscience