The projects listed here were awarded funding for the first 3-year period. A call for projects for the second funding period will be anounced in 2026.
Cortico-subcortical interactions via the thalamic reticular nucleus for visual adaptive sensing
Fear loops: Adaptive sensory coding in cortico-thalamic circuits upon associative learning
Peripheral-to-foveal cortico-collicular processing of visual information across eye movements
A cortico-collicular network for hearing and noise avoidance responses in bats
Learning-related topographic network activity patterns of auditory corticofugal neurons
Temporal dynamics of unsupervised contextual learning in cortico-collicular loops
& Coordination project
Perturbing human thalamocortical loops to understand their contribution to visual perception
Friederich Johenning
Jackie Schiller
The mediodorsal thalamus as a central hub in olfactory learning
Corticofugal mechanisms of naturalistic threat memory
Stefanie Liebe
Neural interaction during context dependent visual processing in the human medial temporal lobe
Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Neural interaction during context dependent visual processing in the human medial temporal lobe
Andrew Parker (associated PI:
Kristine Krug)
The pulvinar nuclei as a computational system: Computing and calibrating the organization of 3-D visual space.
The pulvinar nuclei as a computational system: Computing and calibrating the organization of 3-D visual space.
Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Cortico-thalamic feedback loops for representational stabilization of visual sensation
The nature of sensory gating – probing the function of a corticofugal loop.
The control of multi-neuron temporal encoding in the LGN by striate feedback