Section: New Results

Systemic view of visuomotor transformations

Visuomotricity was an important topic in our activities in the Cortex team. We are pursuing these activities in ongoing projects (particularly the ANR Keops project, cf. §  8.1 ), and extend them according to a systemic view, integrating new information flows from the external world and from other neuronal structures:

• We consider the role of non-standard cells in the retina [11] , reported as responsible for fast event-detection in the visual flow.

• We have initiated a modeling study of the retina-thalamus-cortex information flow and particularly of its non-specific pathway [9] that can account for attentional mechanisms.