Research
Prof. P. Janssen MD, PhD
- Visuomotor transformations during visually-guided object grasping: single-cell recordings in areas AIP and F5.
- Processing of three-dimensional shape: coding, correlation with behavior and causal interactions.
- The neural representation of two-dimensional shape in macaque area AIP.
- Relationship between fMRI activation, single-cell responses and local field potentials.
- Functional interactions between Frontal Eye Fields and area LIP.
- Amygdala kindling in the macaque monkey as a model for temporal lobe epilepsy.
Prof. Z. Kourtzi PhD
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Cognitive neuroscience:
- Visual form and motion perception
- Object recognition and categorization
- Learning for perceptual decisions
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Comparative Studies:
- The neural basis of visual learning: comparative studies on human and non-human primates
- Learning-dependent plasticity in the primate brain: behavioral, brain imaging (fMRI, EEG-fMRI, TMS) and neurophysiology studies
- Cortical dynamics mediating learning in the primate brain (fMRI-EEG, TMS, DTI)
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Healthy aging and disease:
- Multimodal brain imaging (structural and functional MRI, DTI) of the individual brain across the lifespan
- Markers of learning and brain plasticity in the young and aging brain
- The neurochemistry of learning in the young and aging brain: PET, MRS, pharmacological imaging
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Method development:
- High-field, high resolution brain imaging
- Modelling and advanced computational methods for the analysis of brain imaging data
- Machine learning approaches for decoding the individual brain
- Predicting learning ability and recovery of function from brain data in healthy aging and disease
Prof. W. Vanduffel PhD
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Non-human primate imaging
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Visual System
- Retinotopy
- 2D and 3D shape
- Animate and inanimate objects
- Actions
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Motor System
- Action execution
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Visual System
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Modulation of sensory representation by extra-retinal signals
- Selective spatial attention
- Reward
- Valence
- Emotion
- Functional and effective connectivity
- Casual role of feedback connections
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Casual interactions within functional networks:
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Combined psychophysics, functional imagaing and focal perturbation
- fMRI & electrical microstimulation
- fMRI & chemical inactivation
- fMRI & optogenetic manipulation
- fMRI & neuropharmacology
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Combined psychophysics, functional imagaing and focal perturbation
- Comparative neuro-imaging using novel analytical methods
- Developing high-resolution imaging tools
Prof. M. Van Hulle PhD
- the formation of kernel-based topographic maps, and their application to data modeling, regression and clustering
- the development of tools for characterizing the linear and stochastic nature of fMRI signals
- the development of data mining tools based on topographic maps for analyzing large databases
- the development of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), both invasive (spikes, LFPs) and non-invasive (EEG)
- the modeling of independent motion segregation from optic flow and the role of attention
- the development of tools for analysing fMRI data and for modeling functional cortical networks from fMRI data
- the modeling of cell responses of monkey cortical area IT.
Prof. R. Vogels PhD
- Coding of objects and visual categories in the ventral visual stream, using fMRI guided single cell recording in awake, behaving rhesus monkeys.
- Plasticity of visual cortical responses: perceptual learning and repetition suppression.
- Relationship between single cell selectivity and fMRI activation.
