Country of Origin: Spain Start: 01/11/04 Scientific Supervisor: Prof. U. Ilg Job description: The scientific question addresses the processing of visual motion, from simple coherent motion stimuli up to complex motion stimuli such as biological motion or second order motion stimuli. In order to do so, psychophysical studies revealing motion perception of human subjects as well as highly trained rhesus monkeys will be combined with eye movement recordings. In addition, single-unit recordings from monkeys’ extrastriate motion areas (areas MT and MST) will be performed. The combination of these different approaches, already well established in the supervisor’s lab, will allow to gain further insight in the processing of visual motion signals. |