| old_uid | 12790 |
|---|---|
| title | Learning to smell |
| start_date | 2013/09/23 |
| schedule | 11h |
| online | no |
| location_info | Bât 452, RdC, salle de conférence |
| details | 4ème conférence du Cycle des conférences CRNL |
| summary | The laboratory of Donald Wilson, PhD (a research scientist at NKI and a Research Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU/Langone School of Medicine) focuses on perceptual learning, sensory gating, object coding, and hedonic coding in the mammalian olfactory system. Perception of odors involves a synthesis of often hundreds of molecular features into perceptual objects, similar to visual object recognition. Interestingly, in olfaction this process occurs primarily not in a neocortical architecture, but rather in neural ensembles within a trilaminar cortex similar to hippocampus. The olfactory system has tight, reciprocal links with both the limbic system and frontal cortex, and thus presents as an excellent model system for understanding a range of cognitive processes including memory, sensory perception, and emotional modulation and regulation, all of which are addressed in his lab. |
| responsibles | Béranger, Rossetti |