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The Neural Architecture of Primate Visuopatial Attention

ReferenceBBS/B/16429
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Glyn Humphreys
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Dr Dietmar Heinke
Institution University of Birmingham
DepartmentSchool of Psychology
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 244,387
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/10/2004
End date 29/02/2008
Duration41 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/16356, BBS/B/16313 and BBS/B/16399.

Summary

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Committee Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative Integrative Analysis of Brain and Behaviour (IABB) [2003]
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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