Effects of abnormal early experience on IT circuitry
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Principal Investigator: MARGARET S LIVINGSTONE Organization: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Fiscal Year: 2024 Award: $615,600 Funding agency: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Project Summary The goal of the proposed research is to probe object-recognition circuitry in inferotemporal cortex by specific manipulations of early visual experience. In adult humans and monkeys discrete regions of the temporal lobe are specialized for processing particular object categories, such as faces, text, bodies, or places. These domains underlie complex object recognition. Visual experience of these categories is both necessary and sufficient to produce domains, and the goal is to explore how specific abnormal early visual experience changes neuronal selectivity. Terms: <21+ years old><Acute><Adolescent><Adolescent Youth><Adult><Adult Human><Age><Amblyopia><Animal Testing><Animals><Area><Augmented Reality><Behavior><Behavioral><Birth><Blinking><Body part><Brain><Brain Nervous System><Categories><Cats><Cats Mammals><Cell Body><Cells><Chronic><Cognitive><Color><Complex><Coupled><Cytochrome Oxidase><Darkness><Dental White Spots><Development><Devices><Domestic Cats><Electron Transport Complex IV><Electrophysiology><Electrophysiology (science)><Encephalon><Equilibrium><Exclusion><Eye><Eye Dominance><Eye Movements><Eyeball><Face><Feline Species><Felis catus><Felis domestica><Felis domesticus><Felis sylvestris catus><Ferrocytochrome c Oxygen Oxidoreductase><Fugu Toxin><Functional MRI><Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging><Goals><Goggles><Helmet><Histocytochemistry><Human><Illumination><Image><Individual><Infant><Left><Life Experience><Light><Lighting><Macaca><Macaque><Microcomputers><Modern Man><Monkeys><Nerve Cells><Nerve Unit><Nervous System Finding><Neural Cell><Neurocyte><Neurologic Finding><Neurological observations><Neurons><Neurophysiology / Electrophysiology><Ocular Dominance><Optics><Parturition><Pattern><Phorias><Photoradiation><Position><Positioning Attribute><Primates><Primates Mammals><Reading><Research><Sensory><Shapes><Sight><Site><Social Behavior><Spottings><Squint><Strabismus><System><Tarichatoxin><Temporal Lobe><Testing><Tetradotoxin><Tetrodotoxin><Text><Vision><Visual><Visual Pathways><Visualization><White Spots><Work><adulthood><adversarial neural network><ages><balance><balance function><contrast imaging><cytochrome c oxidase><deprivation><developmental><early experience><electrophysiological><experience><extrastriate area><extrastriate cortex><extrastriate visual cortex><eye blink><eyeblink><fMRI><faces><facial><function luminance><generative adversarial network><generative neural network><histochemistry><histochemistry/cytochemistry><imaging><inferotemporal cortex><juvenile><juvenile human><lens><lenses><light weight><lightweight><liquid crystal><luminance><monocular><neural><neuronal><novel><object perception><object recognition><optical><orientation preference><orientation selectivity><puffer fish toxin><skills><sociobehavior><sociobehavioral><statistics><temporal cortex><visual area><visual function><visual information><visual process><visual processing><wearable><wearable device><wearable electronics><wearable system><wearable technology><wearable tool><wearables>