Polack Lab

Neuroscience of sensory perception and perceptual learning

From sensory processing to perception

Our brain has the ability to convert the information provided by our senses into a comprehensive percepts. The goal of our lab is to understand how the neurons of the cerebral cortex process sensory information and shape our perception of the world around us. To investigate those mechanisms, we record the activity of neurons in the brain of mice performing perceptual task. Our latest research related to:

  • Generalization and Categorization – We demonstrated that neurons of the mouse primary visual cortex are capable of generalizing and categorizing visual information

  • Contextual processing – We investigate how visual processing in the primary visual cortex is adapted to the behavioral context such as audiovisual processing, behavioral task or motor activity

  • Functional Networks – We also investigate how neuronal networks are established during development and maintained functional during adulthood

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Published

Find here the list of our publications with a short layman summary

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Current Research

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OUR PREPRINTS

The Team

Meet our present and past members

LAB MEMBERS

Other Topics

In the past, we worked on absence epilepsy. A summary of this work can be found here.

EPILEPSY

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