CORE - Vision Processies

描述（由申请人提供）：麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系的三个核心模块需要五年的续期支持。我们的部门是一个不断发展的部门，目前有10名nei支持的研究人员，他们进行视觉，视觉系统和动眼肌系统的研究。由于麦戈文家族和皮考尔基金会的大力支持，麻省理工学院成立了两个主要的新中心（麦戈文大脑研究所和皮考尔学习和记忆中心），未来五年将有许多新的任命，其中一些是在视觉和眼动控制方面。其中一些任命已经做出。目前我们有19项来自国家眼科研究所的资助。这项研究是由十名调查人员进行的

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Five years of renewed support are requested for three Core modules in the Department of Brain and cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ours is a growing department which at are sent has ten NEI-supported investigators who carry out research on vision, the visual system and the oculomotor system. Due to major support from the McGovern family and the Picower Foundation, two major new centers have been formed at MIT (the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Picower Center for Learning and Memory) in which numerous new appointments will be made the next five years, with several of them in vision and oculomotor control. Some of these appointments have already been made. Presently we have 19 grants from the National Eye Institute. The research carried out by the ten investigators of the Core Group includes the following areas of research: (1) neurophysiological studies of the visual and oculomotor systems, (2) anatomical studies of the visual and oculomotor systems, (3) developmental studies of the vision and visuomotor function, (4) psychophysical studies of visual functions in non-human primates, (5) psychophysical studies of visual functions in normal human and patient populations, (6) computational analyses of vision and eye movement, and (7) imaging studies to elucidate the roles various visual areas play in image processing Two of the modules supported by this Core Grant, the Instrument Shop and the Electronics Shop, are in extensive use by the Core Group. During the past four years these investigators have been very productive and have published extensively as documented in this application. The Core Modules have made significant contributions to the overall research efforts of this group and have fostered interaction among investigators involved in vision and visuomotor research. Continued support of these two Core Facilities will be of great benefit to our future investigations. Additionally, we are requesting support for a new module to support ongoing and planned imaging studies conducted by eye researchers at MIT. If funded, this module will provide a central support facility for functional brain imaging by NEI-supported investigators in the BCS department.