Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$197,822.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

In the visual system, the information transmitted from the retina is analyzed and transformed by the visual cortex at multiple stages to construct an internal representation of the environment. It has long been suggested that the visual cortex is a passiv