UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Mission Statement
The Laboratory for Neurosensory Diagnostics is committed to translating
basic neuroscientific findings, derived from both human and non-human
primate research, to the development of noninvasive diagnostic methods
that can detect and quantify systemic cerebral cortical function.
To achieve its goals, the Lab currently conducts both basic and
translational research.
Cortical Information Processing
Our goal, as a research group, is to develop an understanding of some of the mechanisms involved in cortical information processing. To this end, we are primarily an experimental group who study the responses evoked by tactile stimulation. A great deal of information currently exists about the afferent (mechanoreceptors located in the skin) response to a number of different types of stimuli. Our primary interest is in how the integration of the responses from those different afferents is coordinated within the cortex and how the cortical output of primary somatosensory cortex impacts, or reflects, human perception. To pursue this goal, we are, or have been, actively engaged in a number of different types of studies. These include in vivo and in vitro optical imaging of the intrinsic signal, single and multi-site extracellular recording, metabolic mapping, neural network modeling, measures of human perception (psychophysics) and clinically derived measures of cortical activity (via EEG and fMRI).
