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Neuroscience Seminar: Bruce Cumming
October 2, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Department of Neuroscience will host a seminar with Bruce Cumming, M.D., Ph.D., Vision Section Chief of the National Eye Institute (NIH) on October 2nd, 2019, at 12:00 PM noon in 3571 WIMR II. Dr. Cumming’s seminar title is “Disparity as a Tool to Understand How the Cortex Exploits the Statistics of the Environment.”
Dr. Cumming studied medicine at Oxford & also earned a Ph.D. studying brainstem neurons that control convergence eye movements. As a postdoctoral fellow, he went on to study the perceptual properties of stereopisis in human subjects, before establishing a laboratory that studied single neurons in awake animals. Dr. Cumming joined the NEI in 2000, and became chief of the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research in 2006.
Dr. Cumming’s lab studies binocular vision as a model system in which to explore the relationship between the activity in single cortical neurons and conscious perception. This is pursued by combining single neuron recordings in awake, behaving monkeys, psychophysical experiments in both the animals and in human observers, and computational modeling. The combination of single-unit recording, simultaneous psychophysical judgments from the animal, and modern analytical techniques allows us to gain detailed insights into the connections between the activity of single brain neurons and perceptual experience.
Host: Ari Rosenberg