International Research Fellowship Program: Early Binocular Integration of Motion and Depth Information

0107383Graf国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用独特或互补的设施，该奖项将支持Erich Graf博士与Martin Lages博士在苏格兰格拉斯哥大学进行为期24个月的博士后研究。运动感知是低噪声最重要的特征之一，与所有有视觉的生物共享的信息处理水平。 虽然在过去的几十年里，我们对大脑皮层运动处理的理解取得了巨大的进步，但许多问题仍然没有得到解决。 一个问题涉及沿着处理路径的沿着发生双目运动信息的整合的位置。 这项工作使用心理物理学和计算方法试图找到答案。 PI和他的主机将使用从他们的调查以及其他相关的运动文献中获得的结果，扩展单细胞反应的模拟研究，以群体的双眼简单和复杂的细胞，使用新的算法的灵感来自类似的工作领域audience.The心理学系在格拉斯哥大学有一个理想的研究小组谁将与格拉夫博士在这个项目上。 他们包括眼科学、心理物理学和计算视觉领域的研究人员。

0107383GrafThe International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twenty-four month postdoctoral research fellowship for Dr. Erich Graf to work with Dr. Martin Lages at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.The perception of motion is one of the most important features of low-level information processing shared with all seeing creatures. While tremendous advancements in our understanding of motion processing in the cortex have occurred in the past decades, many issues are left unresolved. One issue concerns the location along the processing pathway where the integration of binocular motion information occurs. The work proposed uses psychophysical and computational approaches to attempt to find an answer. The PI and his host will use the results obtained from their investigations as well as other relevant motion literature to extend simulation studies of single cell responses to populations of binocular simple and complex cells using new algorithms inspired by analogous work in the field of audition.The Department of Psychology at the University of Glasgow has an ideal group of researchers who will work with Dr. Graf on this project. They include researchers in the areas of ophthalmology, psychophysics and computational vision.