Gomez Lab
Principal Investigator: Jesse Lee Gomez
Institution: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: Inquire for rotation/fellowship opportunities
Research Focus
PROJECT SUMMARY The dorsal visual stream is one of the two major processing pathways in human visual cortex, and is involved in attentional and spatial aspects of vision critical for attending to, filtering, and interacting with the visual environment. The retinotopic maps which comprise the dorsal visual stream have never been mapped across development. This is a fundamental gap in the neuroscience of vision, with no existing models for how the structural and functional development of a major visual processing pathway drives behavioral maturation. Leveraging our prior working in population receptive field (pRF) mapping of ventral visual stream development, we propose a rigorous multimodal approach combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), quantitative MRI (qMRI), neuroanatomical mapping, and the innovative use of bespoke video game-based experiments to engage children to measure the dorsal visual stream in childhood, adolescents, and adults. Collecting multiple forms of data on each individual allows us measure how simultaneous changes in function and fine-scale tissue structures in the living brain are coordinated to impact behavioral development. The work is struct…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01EY036881-02: Development of Human Dorsal Visual Cortex (2026)
- 1R01EY036881-01: Development of Human Dorsal Visual Cortex (2025)
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