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CAREER: The receptive field as a window into the developing brain — NSF Award to Princeton University (NJ, $574,641)

Humans rely heavily on vision to navigate and interact with our environment. An important visual skill learned during childhood is how to efficiently plan where and what we will visually attend. Reading this very text, for example, involved learning how to make and plan eye movements horizontally across a page. The abi

Award titleCAREER: The receptive field as a window into the developing brain
Award ID2337373
AwardeePrinceton University
CityPRINCETON
StateNJ
Amount obligated$574,641
Principal investigatorJesse Gomez
ProgramCognitive Neuroscience
Start date08/15/2024
AbstractHumans rely heavily on vision to navigate and interact with our environment. An important visual skill learned during childhood is how to efficiently plan where and what we will visually attend. Reading this very text, for example, involved learning how to make and plan eye movements horizontally across a page. The ability to plan and control where in space we attend is called visuospatial attention. While it underlies several critical childhood skills, how brain development supports visuospatia
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