Context matters: from sensory processing to decision making

语境调制是指跨时空的相互作用引起的大脑信息加工和知觉的显著变化。在过去的二十年里，大量的工作表明，空间语境效应发生在整个感觉处理层次。然而，很少有工作研究如何影响信息加工的时间背景效应和操作的高层次属性的刺激，以及自我和环境的相互作用。该项目旨在填补这一空白，以进一步了解在细胞，电路和认知水平上的感觉信息处理，感知，感知判断和决策的时间背景调制的性质和机制。

Contextual modulation refers to prominent changes in the processing of information in brain and perception caused by interactions across space and time. Over the past two decades, an enormous amount of work has shown that spatial contextual effects occur throughout the sensory processing hierarchy. However, there has been little work examining how temporal context effects affect information processing and operate for high-level attributes of stimuli as well as interactions of self and environment. The project aims to fill this gap to further understand the nature and mechanisms of temporal contextual modulation on sensory information processing, perception, perceptual judgement and decision making at cellular, circuit and cognitive levels.