Title
Professor of the Graduate School, Division of Neurobiology

Department
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology


Faculty URL
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/westheimerg.html

Research Group
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/westheimer/

Email
gwestheimer@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-4828


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Research Expertise and Interest
neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Research Description
<p>The processing of visual information by the human brain is approached by psychophysical experiments, by the study of the primate visual cortex in a collaborative arrangement with the Neurobiology Laboratory at the Rockefeller University, and by models of neural circuits and brain mechanisms. Of particular interest are interactive and plastic changes associated with the response modifications that occur with attention, active perception and learning. </p>