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Peter Neri

Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

Faculty
Poste
CNRS Director of Research, head of Vision team

29 rue d'Ulm

75005 Paris France

 

Laboratory
LSP
GNT
Team
Vision
Office
2nd floor, room 226
Tel
+33 (0)1 44 32 22 91
Short Biography

Peter Neri graduated from the sister institution of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He then trained between Britain and California, starting with a PhD in Oxford followed by 3 brief postdocs at Stanford, Cambridge and UC Berkeley. He was subsequently supported by a University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society, and is now a CNRS researcher.

Research Interests

My core interest is to understand how sensory signals are processed by neural devices to drive and control behaviour. By 'understand' I mean being able to account for all measurable aspects of sensory processing through simple models consisting of a small number of elements embedded within a physiologically plausible circuit. A key feature of my work is the tight integration between experimental characterization on the one hand, and computational accounts of the empirical results on the other. I have studied various visual and auditory phenomena, ranging from motion processing in fly neurons to natural image understanding in humans.

Teaching

I lecture in the masters of cognitive sciences from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, EHESS, Universités Paris 5 and Paris 6.

Last job offers
M1 or M2
- Internship
LaboratoryLaboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
TeamVision
Adviser
  • Peter Neri
Length of internshipMinimum 3 months
LanguageEnglish