Why Do Primates Have View Cells Instead of Place Cells?
Julio Martinez-Trujillo, MD, PhD
Professor
Provincial Endowed Academic Chair in Autism
Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, and Psychology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University
Martinez-Trujillo’s research explores the mechanisms underlying cognition and social behavior in both healthy and diseased brains. He leads a multidisciplinary team at Schulich, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as high-yield electrophysiological recordings in animal models, human studies and stem-cell-derived brain networks and organoids.
The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory headed by Martinez-Trujillo is particularly interested in isolating the brain mechanisms underlying selective attention and working memory. These two functions are largely responsible for our performance in most tasks.
Research interests include:
- Neurophysiological bases of attention
- Neural mechanisms of working memory
- Pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorders
- Cell types of the primate neocortex