CORE GRANT FOR VISION RESEARCH

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约大学神经科学中心是研究视觉功能方面的主要场所。来自该中心的18名研究人员要求通过继续核心资助来支持他们的视力研究。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，它将为开发最先进的软件提供支持，以生成各种各样的视觉刺激，用于心理物理学、神经生理学和大脑成像实验。 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，以及接口设备的各种行为和生物实验。 3.一个神经解剖学模块，将提供专家支持，在光和EM水平的神经解剖学材料的处理，并在组织学材料的电生理记录部位的分析和定位。 4. MRI模块将为脑成像中心的西门子MRI扫描仪的用户提供硬件和软件服务支持，使核心研究人员能够获得用于人类和动物研究的功能和结构成像能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Neural Science at New York University is a premier site for research into functional aspects of vision. Eighteen investigators from the Center request support for their vision research through continuation of 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 support for the development of state-of-the-art software for the generation of a wide variety of visual stimuli for psychophysical, neurophysiological, and brain imaging experiments. 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 interface devices for a variety of behavioral and biological experiments. 3. A Neuroanatomy Module which will provide expert support for the processing of heuroanatomical material at both the light and EM level, and for the analysis and localization of electrophysiological recording sites in histological material. 4. An MRI Module which will provide support for hardware and software services for users of the Siemens MRI scanner in the Center for Brain Imaging, giving access for Core researchers to functional and structural imaging capabilities for human and animal research.