Research

Research Laboratories

Visual Information Processing

web site: http://www.bu.edu/dbin/bme/vipl/
principle investigator: Christopher L. Passaglia

The Visual Information Processing Lab investigates the computational strategies employed by the nervous system to process and encode a visual scene. Behavioral, electrophysiological, histological, theoretical, and computer modeling techniques are applied to animals with visual systems of varying complexity in order to gain a broad spectrum of insights into the neural basis of visual perception. The research efforts of the lab are primarily directed at the retinal network of the eye and its synaptic contacts in the brain. The aim is to understand how visual images are represented in the retinal output and how the representation changes as ocular diseases, such as glaucoma, inflict damage to the network.