Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012

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Tucson

PLENARY

MOSHE GUR

Moshe Gur is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel. I am a neuroscientist who has been studying for many years the visual system. Together with my collaborator, Max Snodderly, I have recorded from single cells in the primary visual cortex of alert monkeys. We were able to show that in the awake monkey V1 single cell properties are compatible with the most demanding space perception abilities. I have also studied the human visual system using psychophysics, fMRI, and theoretical modeling. My own experimental data as well as observations of basic sensory mechanisms have led me to the view that some brain processes cannot be explained by the usual mechanistic approach (e.g., comparison by physical convergence) and we must look for a new type of physical interactions.