Biography
Biography: Stephen G. Odaibo
Abstract
Every time you look out at a visual scene, the neurons in your visual cortex respond in a certain way. They do so by changing their firing rate in response to the visual scene. Therefore each visual scene is represented in your brain by some specific pattern of neuronal firing. This is the neural code for vision. Understanding this code will potentially mean we can someday enable blind people see by stimulating the brain to represent the visual scene in their line of sight. In this talk, I will present some background on this problem, and I will discuss the subproblem of “cracking the code for visual motion”. In particular, I will present our research results about the behavior of motion-processing neurons in the visual cortex. And I will describe how at Quantum Lucid Research Labs, we are beginning to understand the code for neurons which help us see moving objects.