Visual processing of feedforward and feedback signals in the dLGN (D03 (ehem. 13))

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 276693517

The objective of this project was (and is) to study the feedforward and feedback influences on visual information processing and ro-bustness in the dorsolateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the thalamus. For the next funding period, we will determine the role of feedforward and feedback processing in dLGN for processing of more complex visual inputs such as natural movies, using DNN-based models of the early visual system. To elucidate how dLGN representations support multiple tasks in changing environments, we will then probe through experiments and modeling how feedforward and feedback computations differentially contribute to neural pro-cessing of visual stimuli in dLGN under various illumination conditions.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1233: Robust Vision - Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Philipp Berens; Professorin Dr. Laura Busse