The central goal of our laboratory is to understand
the spatio-temporal dynamics of activity in the brain as it relates to cognitive function. Our theoretical
and experimental studies focus on the investigation of large-scale networks in
the cerebral cortex.
Our research in music perception addresses the question of how the
brain responds to complex, temporally structured sequences of events,
such as music and speech. We employ a synergy of techniques,
including perceptual experiments, neural net modeling and
neuroimaging (EEG, MEG & fMRI).
The focus of our laboratory is on the identification of mechanisms responsible for
the detection of motion, and on the interactions among local motion detectors that result in the formation
of global motion patterns. Nonlinear dynamics constitutes the unifying theoretical framework for these studies
and is the basis for the computational models through which we simulate our experimental results.
