Hi everyone, this is Rachel Stephen back with another video here on livestudyhacks. Today we have a special guest Professor Sabine Kastner, currently a professor at the Princeton neuroscience institute. She is studying how the brain weeds out important information from everyday scenes. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Professor Kastner is able to peek inside the brain and see what areas are active when a person sees a face, place, or object. Most impressively, Professor Kastner did her postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Mental Health and her research is funded by the national science foundation.She has written the Oxford handbook of attention and has started the young frontier of mind foundation to encourage other kids to learn more about neuroscience. Today we are going to learn more about her research regarding how large-scale networks achieve cognition.
Looking at the brain models of the human and the masque(monkeybrain) using methods like the FMRI and electrophysiology, your research has proven a new way in rethinking the visual process pathway through the research done at your lab with the thalamus. Can you explain to the viewers of the first Beatles analogy(attention/cognition) and what exactly is the visual processing pathway, and how your research area is associated with the thalamus region of the brain?