Cephalopods, with their large brains and elaborate behaviors, offer a rare opportunity to tackle both singular and general problems of neuroscience, such as texture perception, motor control, neural circuit design and complex challenges of machine vision, in animals that diverged from the vertebrate lineage close to 700 million years ago. Dr. Gilles Laurent will illustrate some of these issues with examples from his laboratory’s recent work on cuttlefish in his talk titled, "Cephalopods, Visual Perception, Motor Control and Brain Evolution." Their approach combines quantitative and evolutionary perspectives to identify potential principles of design and function of nervous systems.
Friday, July 19, 2019 at 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Lillie Auditorium 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543
508-289-7623
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