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Elise Savier's research focuses on the visual information processing pathways that target multiple brain regions, including the dorsal lateral geniculate thalamus and superior colliculus. Her work aims to understand how visual information is processed through primary and secondary visual pathways, and how these pathways influence behavior. A major challenge in this research area has been the lack of tools to conduct studies in awake animals, as well as the oversimplified conceptual frameworks that view visual processing as linear from the periphery of the visual cortex. Through her lab's research, Elise strives to unravel the orchestration of visual perception and the physiological mechanisms underlying visual information distribution across brain centers. Utilizing comparative approaches, her studies involve direct comparisons of visual processing in species such as mice and tree shrews, using advanced neuromodulation tools to manipulate specific cell types. This research strives to answer fundamental questions related to the neuronal encoding of visual information and the emergence of visual response properties.
Michigan Medicine • University of Michigan
Teaching and conducting research in the field of Ophthalmology and Molecular & Integrative Physiology.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science