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As neuroscientists, we are accustomed to using biological reagents to manipulate neural activity and to discover brain functions. These reagents can be drugs, genetic tools, light-activated molecules, and so on. Their use has given us great insights in all areas of neuroscience. Visual neuroscientists have a additional advantage – another set of reagents: visual stimuli. By designing and implementing images and movies with particular properties based on the long and rich traditions of visual psychophysics, we have been able to identify and characterize brain circuits that process visual information about pattern, form, color, and motion. By using well chosen stimuli, we can draw strong conclusions about the brain mechanisms of visual information processing. Moreover, the widespread influence of visual neuroscience on systems neuroscience more broadly has shown that similar mechanisms play important roles in other brain systems.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Tony Movshon studies vision and visual perception, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines biology, behavior and theory. His work explores the way that the neural networks in the brain compute and represent the form and motion of objects and scenes, the way that these networks contribute to perceptual judgments and to the control of visually guided action, and the way that normal and abnormal visual experience influence their development in early life.
Movshon was born and raised in New York, received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and then joined the Department of Psychology at New York University in 1975. In 1987 he became founding Director of NYU’s Center for Neural Science. Among his honors are the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the António Champalimaud Vision Award, and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Association for Psychological Science.
