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Welcome
to Ehud Zohary’s
Lab. Our research is
focused on how our brain generates a representation of the world around
us, combining incoming perceptual information with memory-based
expectations (of what it should be), to act on it. Consider
the demo you’ve just seen,
showing a visual scene,
typical scanning patterns, and the image generated on your retina. The
visual image is heavily blurred in
the periphery. We therefore constantly scan the visual scene with our
eyes. thereby generating a novel retinal image with
every new eye movement. Incredibly, our brain seamlessly generates a
stable representation of the visual scene in spite of
this jerky and incomplete visual information. Thisperceptual stability
is so robust that we live in an illusion that we see
everything at the highest precision all at once. In our labraory
we conduct experiment trying to gain further understanding of
the phenomenon. We are also interested in understanding changes in cortical representations. For example: how do the blind construct a world image? What happens to their “visual” cortex? How does our brain generate a body image? how does it change following amputation? Learn more about this and other projects |
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 We are always looking for bright and motivated students, who have keen interest in Systems Neuroscience. Computational/analytical background is a major advantage. Please email Ehud Zohary if you qualify. We thank the following agencies and private foundations for their generous support in the past & present: Israel-US Binational foundation (BSF); Israel Science Foundation, The McDonell Foundation, The Dana Foundation, & Israel National Institute for Psychobiology. |
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