Name:
Wouter Schellekens
Department Neurology and Neurosurgery
Function:
PhD-student
E-mail:
w.schellekens@umcutrecht.nl
Tel:+31 88-75 50176
Supervisor:
M. Raemaekers
Title research:
Directional Anisotropies of the Retinotopic Cortex
Summary research:
The perception of visual motion is of great importance for us humans and other mammals. In psychological and psychophysical studies over the last decades, it has been shown that motion moving in radial directions (i.e. centripetal and centrifugal directions) is preferred over motion moving in tangential directions. Now we have accordingly found evidence for neural anisotropies for motion moving in radial directions as well. The question remains how these biases are realized and for what purposes. On the 7T Philips Achieva, experiments are conducted to find out more about the nature of these directional anisotropies of the retinotopic cortex.