{"id":1787,"date":"2025-03-31T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:24:08","slug":"4-11-25-daniel-felleman-distinguished-alumni-visual-cortex-neurons-modules-maps-and-hierarchies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/03\/31\/4-11-25-daniel-felleman-distinguished-alumni-visual-cortex-neurons-modules-maps-and-hierarchies\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/11\/25 Daniel Felleman, Distinguished Alumna: Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Neuroscience Brown Bag<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/med.uth.edu\/oep\/daniel-felleman-phd\/\">Daniel Felleman<\/a>, PhD<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1828 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/24165800\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-133443-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/24165800\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-133443-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/24165800\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-133443.png 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Professor of Neurobiology &amp; Anatomy<br \/>\nMcGovern Medical School<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Friday, April 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>1:25-2:15pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Wilson Hall 316<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The past forty years has seen a remarkable revelation on our understanding of the organization and function of the cerebral cortex, especially primate visual cortex. This lecture will review my journey as a graduate student in the Kaas laboratory at Vanderbilt University, post-doctoral training in the Van Essen laboratory at Caltech and culminating as a professor in my own laboratory at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Houston. In my journey, I experienced many shifts of experimental paradigms including electrophysiological single-unit recording of area MT in owl monkeys at Vanderbilt, combined anatomical and single-unit studies of areas V3 and V4 in macaque monkeys at Caltech, and integrated anatomical, single-unit, multi-electrode array recording and intrinsic optical imaging investigations of areas V2, V4 and inferotemporal cortex in macaques at UTHealth. These investigations, in association with numerous other investigator\u2019s journeys, has led to a new understanding of the role of neurons, modules, maps, and hierarchies in the function of visual cortex.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will review some of the key moments in my journey through visual cortex with the goal of identifying some of the remaining mysteries that underly the role of cortex in visual perception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience Brown Bag Daniel Felleman, PhD Professor of Neurobiology &amp; Anatomy McGovern Medical School Date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Time:\u00a01:25-2:15pm Location:\u00a0Wilson Hall 316 Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies The past forty years has seen a remarkable revelation on our understanding of the organization and function of the cerebral cortex, especially primate visual cortex&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/24165712\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-115632.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}