Integration of visual and spatial information in the brain

成功的导航需要整合传入的感官信息与内在生成的自我定位表征。研究主要集中在视觉刺激更新海马空间记忆系统的意义上。然而，尽管视觉输入对导航的重要性众所周知，并且最近的实验证据表明视觉皮层的活动受到空间信息的调制（Saleem et al 2018），但视觉感知和导航中涉及的神经过程很少被孤立地研究。该项目的目标是使用实验和计算技术来探索大脑中连接视觉空间处理的双向通信。

Successful navigation requires the integration of incoming sensory information with internallygenerated representations of self-location. Research has predominantly focused on themeans by which visual stimuli update the hippocampal spatial memory system. However,despite the known importance of visual inputs for navigation and recent experimentalevidence showing that the activity in visual cortex is modulated by spatial information(Saleem et al 2018), the neural processes involved in visual perception and navigation havelargely been studied in isolation The goal of this project is to use experimental andcomputational techniques to explore the bidirectional communication linking visuo-spatialprocessing in the brain.