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The neural architecture of primate visuospatial attention

Reference	BBS/B/16356
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Semir Zeki
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Stewart Shipp
Institution	University College London
Department	Cell and Developmental Biology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	597,754
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/03/2005
End date	30/09/2008
Duration	43 months

Abstract

The project integrates four laboratories and six disciplines to forge a multilevel account of visuospatial attention. The central component is computational modelling. Over progressive enhancements of its fidelity to real primate neural architecture, the computational model will mimic/predict our planned observations (a) of attentive phenomenology in normal and brain-damaged human subjects; (b) visual neuronal responses in monkeys performing, focal attentive tasks. Cutting edge MRI technology will be used to investigate man/monkey homology in respect of classically established subcortical circuitry, to image dynamic cortical visual maps, and probe what is posited as a key attentional control centre: the thalamic pulvinar nucleus. Joint with BBS/B/16399, BBS/B/16429 and BBS/B/16313.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	Neuroscience and Behaviour, Systems Biology
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Integrative Analysis of Brain and Behaviour (IABB) [2003]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

Associated awards:

BBS/B/16313 The Neural Architecture of Primate Visuospatail Attention

BBS/B/16399 The Neural Architecture of Primate Visuospatial Attention

BBS/B/16429 The Neural Architecture of Primate Visuopatial Attention

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