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Cory Miller

UCSD, USA

How monkeys ‘really’ see the world

 Like all sensory systems, vision evolved as an active process selected to enable organisms to adeptly navigate the world around them. Yet our prodigious understanding of the primate visual system has been driven by experiments in which restrained subjects are presented with stimuli on a screen, effectively limiting key facets of visual processing that brains evolved to solve.  Here I will present recent studies aimed at elucidating the neural basis of natural, active primate vision in common marmosets. This work comprises behavioral studies of prey-capture in wild marmosets, recent technological advances for combined wireless eye-tracking and neural recordings and initial recordings of neurons in primary visual cortex as monkeys naturally move and explore the environment.