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Elvire Vaucher is a full professor at the School of Optometry at the University of Montreal, actively engaged in developing new pharmacological strategies to improve visual functions diminished due to eye diseases, aging, or brain injuries. She holds a doctorate and two post-doctorates in Neuroscience and has been promoting vision sciences by organizing conferences for the School of Optometry since 2002 and by participating in the FRQS research network in vision health as well as the interdisciplinary rehabilitation center in the Montreal metropolitan area. Her research focuses on the functional influence of the cholinergic system, which is involved in attention and memory, on synaptic and neuronal plasticity in the visual cortex of adult rats. Vaucher studies cholinergic modulation in visual perception, emphasizing its critical role in cortical plasticity, attention, and learning. Her work contributes to the understanding of how cholinergic activation in the cortex can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio, cue detection abilities, and the strength of thalamocortical afferents relative to cortico-cortical signaling, facilitating treatment for novel stimuli.
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