3D Perception

It was a month prior to the PRISM meeting in Bordeaux that I joined Andrew Welchman’s lab in the University of Birmingham. At that time, most of the work presented during the meeting was new to me, but nonetheless very intriguing! Getting lots of ideas from the talks and posters and after chatting with the rest of ESRs and PIs, Andrew and I decided to follow an alternative approach towards the question “How do dorsal and ventral cortex interact in order to give us 3D perception?” by investigating the neural connections between these areas.

Before starting to collect my own data for this project, we decided that I should first spend some time to learn the ropes of brain imaging techniques and the relevant software for the analysis. Using fMRI, DTI and TMS for detecting the functional areas, mapping the white matter fibers and interrupting some brain connections respectively, we are able to gain a useful insight into the underlying connectivity between dorsal and ventral...