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Breaking the Wall of Sensory Overload How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception
Title
Breaking the Wall of Sensory Overload [electronic resource (video)] : How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception / Falling Walls Foundation.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2012.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (16 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 10, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Part of the Falling Walls conference.
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Summary
We know that attention disorders such AD/HD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, affect more than four percent of the population and are connected to other neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the neural circuits and computations underlying attention remain poorly understood. Stefan Treue, professor of cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology at the German Primate Center and University of Göttingen, is providing a more rigorous description of the correlates and signatures of attention in neural activity - and thereby starting to identify the sources of attentional influences on neural activity and perception. Treue was recently honored with the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the DFG (German Research Foundation) for his experimental study of the primate visual system, particularly that of the macaque monkey. Treue details in this Falling Walls lecture how he is successfully exploring the central influence of attention on our perception and contributing to an overturning of old ideas about information processing in our nervous system.
Variant and related titles
How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception
Sensory Overload
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Other formats
Originally produced: Falling Walls Foundation, 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
Importance of the Sensory System (2:58)
Visual System (2:07)
Lab Experiment (2:14)
Encoding Visual Information at the Neuron Level (1:34)
Selective Perception and Attention (2:55)
Interaction of Neural Activity and Attention (2:18)
The Attentional System (1:04)
Credits: Breaking the Wall of Sensory Overload: How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception (0:00)
Videorecording number
53584 Infobase
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Falling Walls Foundation.
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Infobase.
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