Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde is a laboratory director at the Barrow Neurological Institute. She was trained by the Nobel laureate, David Hubel, at Harvard Medical School, and she has made several contributions to the field of visual neuroscience.
She has had recent success in her lab’s studies of eye movements, which were featured on the cover of Scientific American in August 2007. Scientific American is the oldest continuously running magazine in the United States (in any field), and is the science magazine with the greatest circulation in the world (over 1 million readers). Dr. Martinez-Conde has also been recently featured for her lab’s research and contributions in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Discover Magazine, and Nature, the most prestigious journal of science in the world.
The research focuses on understanding the neural bases of our visual experience. How can the electrical activity of a neuron, or a neuronal population, convey the color or brightness of an object? How can we determine the signal from the noise in a train of electrical impulses within a neuron? What type of neural code do neurons use to communicate information to each other? How are neural impulses grouped to represent the different features of a visual scene? To address these questions we use a combination of techniques, including fMRI, electrophysiological recordings from single neurons, psychophysical measurements, and computational models of visual function.
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