Steve Engel
UCLA

March 22, 2006
1220 MRB III • 4:10 p.m.

Learning and Adaptation in Visual Cortex

Early work in cognitive neuroscience focused on localizing cognitive and perceptual functions to specific regions in the human brain. More recent work looks within such regions, to study how neurons represent information and contribute to behavior. This talk will illustrate the latter approach using two lines of research. The first examines whether learning can modify neural representations at different levels of the visual system. The second uses adaptation to investigate whether color and form are represented jointly in the visual system.


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