Dr. Eyal Seidemann

Biography

Eyal Seidemann received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University. His research focuses on the cortical mechanisms that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior. His central goal is to understand how perceptual decisions and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. He addresses these general questions by employing a powerful combination of optical imaging, genetic, and electrophysiological techniques on awake, behaving primates. His ability to measure and manipulate neural responses in the cortex of alert animals puts him in a unique position to visualize and perturb cortical activity in real-time while subjects perform demanding perceptual and motor tasks. He builds computational models to explain the measured neural activity that leads to observed behavior. Finally, he tests predictions from quantitative models by measuring how perceptual judgments and motor plans change following selective manipulations of neural responses using optogenetic, electrical, and pharmacological techniques.

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