Title
Professor of Optometry and Vision Science and Neuroscience

Department
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
School of Optometry


Faculty URL
http://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu/michael.html

Research Group
http://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu/

Email
masilver@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-3130


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Research Expertise and Interest
cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging

Research Description
The goals of Silver's laboratory's research are to understand how the brain constructs representations of the environment and how these representations are modified by cognitive processes such as attention, expectation, and learning. They address these questions by applying a combination of behavioral, brain imaging, electrophysiological, modeling, and pharmacological techniques to the study of healthy human participants as well as patients who suffer from diseases that affect perceptual processing.
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