John A. Assad
Professor
Departmaent of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
United States of America
Biography
The goal of my lab’s research is to understand how the primate brain controls behavior by integrating external sensory information with internal states, such as attention or motivation. The brain has an astonishing ability to flexibly link sensation and action. The same visual object may trigger different actions depending on external context or the animal’s internal needs, preferences or state of attention.
Research Interest
e brain computations between sensory input and motor output The role of the basal ganglia movement control How visual information is transformed into a behaviorally useful form. Neurobiology
Publications
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Biased associative representations in parietal cortex. Fitzgerald JK, Freedman DJ, Fanini A, Bennur S, Gold JI, Assad JA. Neuron. 2013 Jan 9;77(1):180-91. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.014.
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Visuomotor adaptation changes stereoscopic depth perception and tactile discrimination. Volcic R, Fantoni C, Caudek C, Assad JA, Domini F. J Neurosci. 2013 Oct 23;33(43):17081-8. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2936-13.2013.
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Relative timing: from behaviour to neurons. Aghdaee SM, Battelli L, Assad JA. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2014 Jan 20;369(1637):20120472. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0472. Print 2014 Mar 5. Review.
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Neuroscience: Updating views of visual updating. Assad JA. Nature. 2014 Mar 27;507(7493):434-5. doi: 10.1038/507434a. No abstract available.
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2. Multipoint-emitting optical fibers for spatially addressable in vivo optogenetics. Pisanello F, Sileo L, Oldenburg IA, Pisanello M, Martiradonna L, Assad JA, Sabatini BL, De Vittorio M. Neuron. 2014 Jun 18;82(6):1245-54. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.04.041. Epub 2014 May 29.
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Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization: An Abstract View on Decision Making. Freedman DJ, Assad JA. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2016 Jul 8;39:129-47. doi: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-071714-033919. Epub 2016 Apr 8.
