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Jasper Poort aims to understand the effects of learning on brain activity in early visual areas specialized in representing detailed visual features and high-level visual cortical areas closely linked to decision-making. He investigates the long-term brain changes that occur as one learns sensory features relevant to improving decision-making. His research addresses how attentional selection alters brain activity and how changes in early and high-level visual brain areas enable rapid, flexible, task-dependent selection of sensory information. By studying mice performing visually-guided decisions and leveraging similarities between rodent and primate visual systems, he employs unique genetic research methods available for mice to measure and manipulate neural circuits. His exploration of brain circuits includes both healthy mice and genetic mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders, aiming to unravel the determinants of successful and unsuccessful sensory selection.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, ENG
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Physiology, Development Neuroscience.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.