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The Mazer lab studies mid- and high-level visual processing, specifically links between visual perception, eye movements and neural circuits. We use a variety of neurophysiological, psychophysical and computational approaches, all targeted towards understanding the cortical and sub-cortical substrates of natural visually guided behavior.  In our neurophysiological studies, we use a combination of linear and nonlinear systems identification techniques to characterize single neuron responses in extrastriate cortex to complex visual stimuli under different types of attentional load.

Recent psychophysical work in the lab makes use of gaze-contingent displays and on-line eye tracking to investigate the coordinates systems used to encode a restricted locus of spatial attention. This work lies at the intersection of attention, working-memory and oculomotor systems and is intended to explore how all three of these neural subsystems interact when behavioral demands are more like those experienced during normal behavior.

We are located in the Department of Neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine. We are also part of Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, the Biological and Biomedical Science Program and a core lab in the Swartz Initiative in Theoretical Neuroscience at Yale.