Our research focuses on understanding the neural bases of our visual experience. How can the electrical activity of a neuron, or a neuronal population, convey the color or brightness of an object? How can we determine the signal from the noise in a train of electrical impulses within a neuron? What type of neural code do neurons use to communicate information to each other? How are neural impulses grouped to represent the different features of a visual scene? To address these questions we use a combination of techniques, including fMRI, electrophysiological recordings from single neurons, psychophysical measurements, and computational models of visual function.
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Susana Martinez-Conde co-authored the International Bestseller that explains how illusions and magic work in your brain!
The Martinez-Conde Lab is a main organizer of The Best Illusion of the Year Contest
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The Spanish translation of Sleights of Mind (“Los Engaños de la Mente“) received the Prisma Prize to the best book of the year.
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The Martinez-Conde Lab’s research received the EyeTrack Award for: Distinctive features of saccadic intrusions and microsaccades in progressive supranuclear palsy