neural decoding under visual stimuli

a device to discern the correlation between visual stimuli and cortex neuron activities
April-June 2022
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my initial research experience underscored the urgency of understanding the principles behind animal visual perception.

what transpires in a mammal's brain during visual processing?

my foray into neuroscience began with studying mice under Prof. Jiamin Wu.

we aimed to design a device using RUSH, Tsinghua's state-of-the-art observation instrument, to simultaneously collect visual stimuli, electrical stimuli, and calcium fluorescent brain images.


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however, while we observed activity resembling neural circuit actuation with its rapidly firing neurons on cerebral cortex, drawing generalizable principles about their relationship to the visual stimuli proved elusive.



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I am looking forward to any scientific breakthroughs that could possibly explain the principles underlying human mind.