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… to recognize the behavioral significance of incoming sensory stimuli, and to make flexible decisions about those … and subcortical areas, to transform stimulus encoding in sensory cortical areas into task-related cognitive encoding … to monitor the activity patterns of populations of neurons in multiple brain areas during visual learning, …

… in behaving primates demonstrated that the same group of neurons can extract different information from a scene … mammals naturally shift their focus toward need-relevant sensory cues (e.g., visual cues associated with food) to meet … of neurons in cortex and amygdala to need-relevant sensory cues. In turn, such responses to need-relevant cues …

… feels like and how the perceived features are encoded by neurons. But a second percept, explicitly or implicitly, … and duration – of direct manipulation of firing in sensory cortex, which we verify by optogenetics in rats. … to the processing of information in the human tactile sensory system. Outside my research activities, I am …

… We developed a method called  G amma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimuli (GENUS) , which uses patterned light and … GENUS and explore the feasibility of this non-invasive sensory stimulation approach for treating neurological …

… enable them to perform complex computations important for sensory-motor processing and higher cognitive function, and …

… Early in his career he focused on the visual and olfactory sensory systems. He pioneered the use of multi-electrode … for parallel recording from many of the retina's output neurons. Together with new approaches to visual stimulation, …

… Olfactory inputs to the brain are organized into distinct sensory coding channels, each defined by its corresponding … lateral interactions between primary olfactory receptor neurons that can dramatically reshape the spatial and …