Research
Interacting with our environment necessitates to constantly use and manipulate different sources of information. While efficiently extracting information from sensory cues is essential to survival, mammals use endogenous cues to orient their perception and behavior. We study the mechanisms by which sensory representations and cognitive contextual demands are integrated and compared. We combine cognitively challenging behaviorally tasks with mutli-areas large scale extracellular recordings.Â
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Integrating and comparing vision and working memory
How does the brain compares what we are looking at to what we are looking for? We record large populations of neurons simultaneously for multiple cortical areas (PFC, V4 and LIP) during performance of behavioral tasks parametrically manipulating visual stimuli and working memory content.
Environmental statistics
How does the brain encodes statistics of our environment to optimally adapt our behavior? In collaborations with Anna Montagnini and Guillaume Masson, we investigate how manipulating priors about sensory events modulates the activity of cortical neurons during tracking behaviors. We use Marmoset monkeys and high density extracellular recording methods.