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Air date:	Monday, December 15, 2014, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 301 (34 Live, 267 On-demand)
Category:	Neuroscience
Runtime:	01:12:36
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Description:	Neuroscience Seminar Series Dr. Joseph Anthony Movshon received his doctorate from Cambridge University, where he studied visual neurophysiology and psychophysics. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at New York University in 1975, and have remained here apart from a sabbatical year spent at Oxford University. In 1986, his laboratory moved to the newly-formed Center for Neural Science. He is interested in how the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. His research concerns the function and development of the primate visual system, especially the visual areas of the cerebral cortex. His laboratory supports work on neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, psychophysics, and imaging; the main experimental tool is electrophysiological recording from single neurons in monkeys. They stress analytical and quantitative approaches to the study of visual receptive fields. Conceptually, much of this research draws on related work in visual psychophysics, and on computational approaches to understanding brain organization and visual processing. His laboratory works mostly in two broad areas. The first is concerned with analysis of the functions of the visual areas of the primate cerebral cortex, with special emphasis on the roles of those areas in processing information about visual motion, form, and color. He is particularly interested in the relationships between visual signals in these areas, and the perceptual decisions and motor activity they support. The second group of projects focuses on the functional development of the cortical visual system, and on the way that development is affected by forms of abnormal early visual experience that produce a visual system disorder known as amblyopia. Much of their work seeks to uncover the links between brain activity and behavior by studying the relationship between neural activity in the visual system and its perceptual and motor consequences.

NLM Title:	Cortical and perceptual processing of visual form / Joseph Anthony Movshon.
Author:	Movshon, J Anthony. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): Dr. Joseph Anthony Movshon received his doctorate from Cambridge University, where he studied visual neurophysiology and psychophysics. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at New York University in 1975, and have remained here apart from a sabbatical year spent at Oxford University. In 1986, his laboratory moved to the newly-formed Center for Neural Science. He is interested in how the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. His research concerns the function and development of the primate visual system, especially the visual areas of the cerebral cortex. His laboratory supports work on neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, psychophysics, and imaging; the main experimental tool is electrophysiological recording from single neurons in monkeys. They stress analytical and quantitative approaches to the study of visual receptive fields. Conceptually, much of this research draws on related work in visual psychophysics, and on computational approaches to understanding brain organization and visual processing. His laboratory works mostly in two broad areas. The first is concerned with analysis of the functions of the visual areas of the primate cerebral cortex, with special emphasis on the roles of those areas in processing information about visual motion, form, and color. He is particularly interested in the relationships between visual signals in these areas, and the perceptual decisions and motor activity they support. The second group of projects focuses on the functional development of the cortical visual system, and on the way that development is affected by forms of abnormal early visual experience that produce a visual system disorder known as amblyopia. Much of their work seeks to uncover the links between brain activity and behavior by studying the relationship between neural activity in the visual system and its perceptual and motor consequences.
Subjects:	Visual Cortex--physiology Visual Perception--physiology
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WW 105
NLM ID:	101649927
CIT Live ID:	14965
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=14965

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