CORE GRANT FOR VISION RESEARCH

来自纽约大学神经科学中心的17名研究人员请求通过核心拨款支持他们的视觉研究。 他们通过对视觉和视觉引导行为的神经和行为基础的研究兴趣而联系在一起。 拟议的核心将包括四个模块，每个模块都将有利于项目教师所代表的所有研究领域的研究：1。一个视觉显示模块，它将为软件开发提供多平台支持，以生成各种各样的视觉刺激，用于心理物理学和神经生理学实验以及实时数据采集。2.一个设计和制造模块，将提供专业知识，设计和建立新的电子和机械仪器，如所需的多电极记录在视觉皮层，眼动记录的非侵入性方法，并显示基于新的平板设备。3.一个神经解剖学模块，将为在光和EM水平上处理神经解剖学材料以及神经解剖学数据的计算机分析和表示提供专家支持。4.计算模块，将为核心研究者使用的异构计算机网络提供中央支持服务，包括支持中央文件和备份服务、系统和应用程序编程支持，以支持使用计算机进行控制和数据分析的实验，以及涉及神经解剖材料分析和可视化的应用程序。

17 investigators from the Center for Neural Science at New York University request support for their vision research through a Core Grant. They are bound together by their research interests in the neural and behavioral bases of vision and visually guided behavior. The proposed Core will comprise four modules, each of which will benefit research in all the research areas represented in program faculty: 1. A Visual Displays Module which will provide multi-platform support for the development of software for the generation of a wide variety of visual stimuli for psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments, and real-time data acquisition. 2. A Design and Fabrication Module which will provide expertise to design and build novel electronic and mechanical instrumentation such as that required for multielectrode recording in the visual cortex, noninvasive methods of eye movement recording, and displays based on new flat-panel devices. 3. A Neuroanatomy Module which will provide expert support for the processing of neuroanatomical material at both the light and EM level, and for the computerized analysis and representation of neuroanatomical data. 4. A Computing Module which will provide central support services for a heterogeneous network of computers used by the investigators of the Core, including support for central file and backup services, systems and application programming support for experiments using computers for control and data analysis, and for applications involving analysis and visualization of neuroanatomical material.