Cellular and network basis of information processing in the mammalian visual system

哺乳动物视觉系统中信息处理的细胞和网络基础。该项目旨在发现大脑中细胞相互作用的策略，从而有效地编码感觉输入。在视觉刺激期间同时记录麻醉猫的视觉皮层中许多神经元的活动，有望揭示突触整合与来自不同来源的兴奋性和抑制性输入相结合的生物物理学如何塑造单个神经元的输出。实验将扩展到研究大脑不同区域之间可能的相互作用，以及研究皮层网络和高级认知因素（如注意力和记忆）可能影响清醒动物感觉信息编码的机制。

Cellular and network basis of information processing in the mammalian visual system. The project aims to discover the strategies by which cells in the brain interact with each other to code the sensory input efficiently. It is expected that simultaneous recording of the activity of many neurones from the visual cortex of anaesthetised cats during visual stimulation will reveal how the biophysics of synaptic integration combined with excitatory and inhibitory inputs from different sources sculpts the output of individual neurones. The experiments will be extended to the study of possible interactions between different areas of the brain and the study of mechanisms by which the cortical network and higher cognitive factors such as attention and memory might influence the coding of sensory information in awake animals.