Dec. 4, 2008 • The Ferrera Lab launches its first lab website!
Recently,
Cassanello and colleagues developed a quantitative model to describe
the integration of information about target position and velocity when
making eye movements. The activity of neurons in the frontal eye fields
(FEFs) was recorded while monkeys made saccades to stationary and
moving targets. A substantial fraction of FEF neurons was found to
encode both the initial position of a moving target as well as the
amplitude and direction of the saccade needed to intercept the target.
For more, see the full article in Journal of Neurophysiology.
The research in this lab centers around two main themes:
sensorimotor integration and visual perception.
Our approaches include neurophysiology, oculomotor behavior, visual psychophysics, and fMRI imaging.
Some of the topics covered by research in the Ferrera Lab include the following:
