Unfolding the Mystery of our Brain and Mind
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Research Questions
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What is the role of plasticity, amodality & memory formation duing perceptual learning?
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What is the role of visual experience in shaping the neural network linked with navigation?
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What neural structures do blind people rely on to navigate?
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How can we maximaize the potential of sensory substitution devices?
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Are the nodes involved in navigation process vision only orare they sensory and modality independent?
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How do blind people represent space? Is this representation equivalent to the representation made by sighted people? What strategies do blind people to learn spatial relations?
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Methodologies used
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Functional Magnatic resonance Imaging
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Psychophsics
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Behavioral Neuroscience
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Maze navigation, Maze learning
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Volumetry
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Functional and anatomical connectivity
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Keywords
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Brain plasticity, amodality, multi-sensory integration, sensory substitution, navigation, perceptual learning, spatial learning, maze learning, scene recognition, blindness, congenital blindness, hippocampus, parietal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, occipital cortex, parahippocampal place area, magnetic resonance imaging.
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Courses for Advanced Neuroscience Study
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The Neuroscience of Expertise
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Brain plasticity rehabilitation and accommodation
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Head, Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (VCN lab)
Ariel University, The Department of Psychology -
Fellow of the Azrieli International Foundation, the ELSC (Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences) and of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).
