Lead author Ramanujan Srinath showed that 3D shape is explicitly represented in visual area V4, just two stages beyond primary visual cortex. 2-photon microscopy revealed that 2D and 3D shape […]
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MBI Professor Daeyeol Lee Publishes New Book on Intelligence
What is intelligence? Can artificial intelligence get more intelligent than humans? Does a high level of biological intelligence require a complex brain? In his new book “Birth of Intelligence”, MBI […]
Kirkwood Lab Publishes Visual Plasticity Study in eLife
MBI Researcher Alfredo Kirkwood’s laboratory recently published as paper in eLife. The study shows that pairing visual and adrenergic stimulation for only 1 hour enhances visual cortical responses for days, […]
Lee Lab Obtains New Exploratory Grant
MBI Professor Hey-Kyoung Lee, in collaboration with Dr. Grace Hwang of the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, has been awarded a new R21 grant from the NIH/National Eye Institute to begin […]
Knierim Lab Publishes Study about Spatial Segmentation in Current Biology
Former Neuroscience Program and MBI graduate student Chia-Hsuan Wang from the Knierim Lab recently published her dissertation research in Current Biology. The study demonstrated that the boundaries between surface textures […]
Kirkwood Lab Publishes Sleep Paper in Neuron
The lab of Alfredo Kirkwood of MBI published a paper in Neuron showing that sleep radically decreases the balance between synaptic excitation and synaptic inhibition in the brain. This finding […]
MBI Graduate Student Ramanujan Srinath Defends Ph.D. Thesis
Ramanujan Srinath, a graduate student in the labs of Ed Connor and Kristina Nielsen, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on September 10, 2019 and presented his public Thesis Seminar on […]
Lee Lab Publishes Journal of Neuroscience Paper on Visual Cortex Plasticity
The lab of Hey-Kyoung Lee published a paper titled “Disruption of NMDAR Function Prevents Normal Experience-Dependent Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex” in The Journal of Neuroscience, […]
Lee Lab Publishes Paper in Neuron
The lab of MBI Researcher Hey-Kyoung Lee published a new study online in the journal Neuron, with CMDB graduate student Varun Chokshi as primary author. In collaboration with Paul Worley […]
Congratulations to MBI Graduate Student on Thesis Defense!
Douglas GoodSmith, a graduate student in the Knierim lab, successfully defended his thesis dissertation on July 17, 2019 and presented his public seminar on August 16. His thesis was titled […]