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This project investigates the mechanisms of attention in sensory processing using a mouse model. By employing advanced imaging and optogenetics, it aims to uncover how the brain rapidly shifts focus to critical sensory inputs, enhancing our understanding of cognition and behavior.
We are constantly inundated with a barrage of sensory information.
At any given instant, however, only a small key fraction of this sensory world is relevant for taking action.
Our brains must select out the critical input and use it to guide behavioral response.
We often call this selection process attention.A field mouse, for example, scurrying through the grass scanning for delicious morsels attends to the ground below.
The moment, however, the shadow of a hawk flashes by the mouse freezes in…
FUNDACAO D. ANNA DE SOMMER CHAMPALIMAUD E DR. CARLOS MONTEZ CHAMPALIMAUD
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