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Find out about the method of transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, that Professor Joe Devlin uses here in the Department of Experimental Psychology.
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Gioia De Franceschi
Gain control, or normalisation, is thought to be a canonical computation implemented by the brain. My PhD project asks how gain controls regulate visual responses in the two major brain targets of the eye - the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and superior colliculus (SC). My work aims to understand the role of gain controls in…
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"Spatial encoding in the visual pathway arises in cortex and depends on active navigation." - New pre-rpint feat. Aman Saleem @Aman_sal now on bioRxiv: https://t.co/Rb9qrsJyff pic.twitter.com/LwjTpCE0g4
— UCL Experimental Psychology (@EP_UCL) November 8, 2019