Professor Cohen's lab studies the neural basis of vision and cognition. As primates, we perceive the world primarily through our eyes. Each time we move our eyes, our brains are bombarded with visual information. Our brains need to pick out the most important aspects of the visual scene and make quick decisions about how to act based on that information. We are interested in how this information is encoded in the brain and how processes like visual attention, task switching, learning, and memory allow us to flexibly pick out the information that is most crucial at any given moment to guide behavior. We use a combination of electrophysiology, psychophysics, and computational techniques. Our goals are to study how visual information is encoded in groups of neurons at different stages of visuomotor processing and to understand the relationship between the activity of different groups of neurons, cognition, and behavior.

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