Northwestern University Dept. of Neurobiology and Physiology
 

Sensory Systems

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Northwestern has been a strong center for the study of sensory physiology, from the mechanics of auditory and olfactory transduction to sensory processing in visual circuitry, to sensory motor integration.

Faculty

Thomas Bozza
Molecular genetics and physiology of olfaction

Jianhua Cang
Functional development of the visual system

Peter Dallos
Biophysics and neurobiology of the cochlea

Albert Farbman
Cellular interactions in neuronal development; cell and developmental biology of olfaction and taste

David Ferster
Mammalian visual cortex

Robert Linsenmeier
Retinal microenvironment

Mark Segraves
Systems and computational neuroscience; sensorimotor integration; cortical control of eye movements in primates

Raphael Pinaud
Neural mechanisms of sensory processing and plasticity

Jonathan Siegel
Cochlear physiology and ultrastucture