What is a cortex good for? In this webinar, Ellery Jones will detail how acute electrophysiological recordings using our silicon neural probes in the superior colliculus of awake, head-fixed mice were critical for the development of an innovative “Mouse Goggle” system. The mouse goggles, in conjunction with a novel visually guided orienting task (VGOT), establish a paradigm for visuomotor adaptation in freely moving mice which reveals a generative role of the visual cortex in the plasticity of subcortically-mediated visually guided behavior.
Ellery Jones
Scanziani Lab, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ellery completed her doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco in the lab of Dr. Massimo Scanziani. During her thesis research she invented a novel paradigm for inducing visuomotor adaptation in mice in order to interrogate fundamental theories about the role the cortex plays in the experience-dependent plasticity of innate behaviors.