Fellowships: Neurosensory Systems – F35
The Neurosensory System Fellowship Study Section reviews fellowship applications that focus on the physiology and pathophysiology of sensory systems, including auditory and visual modalities, sensorimotor function, interoception, and chemosensation.
Review Dates
A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting
Topics
- Sensorimotor integration, such as studies of the rodent whisker-barrel system, investigations of hand-eye coordination, and studies of proprioception
- Mechanisms of touch, mechanosensation, thermosensation, encoded by somatosensory cortex as well as subcortical, spinal, and peripheral systems
- Chemosensation including olfactory, gustatory and chemesthesis.
- Studies of anatomical and neurophysiological substrates of central visual processes, such as object and motion perception, binocular processes and studies of cortical plasticity at cellular and network levels.
- Visual information processing in the neuronal circuits from the retina to and including all visual areas of the brain.
- The normal and abnormal development of visual neural circuits. The sensory and perceptual consequences of strabismus and amblyopia.
- Molecular mechanisms underlying retinal development and degeneration
- The structure and function of the auditory and peripheral vestibular systems in human and animal models
- The aging process and degenerative changes in auditory and visual systems
- Studies of interactions of sensory modalities, such as interactions of auditory and visual systems
- Perceptual mechanisms for all sensory modalities
