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The Journal of Neurophysiology highlighted Farran's paper "Dynamic communication of attention signals between the LGN and V1" in their Twitter feed.

They showcased the fact that the authors found that attentional modulation of visual information communication was not static, but dynamic over the time course of trials.

Well done Farran!

Neuroscience Graduate student Allison Murphy co-authored a paper with the Briggs lab while in a rotation with the lab. Allison contributed an extensive amount of work toward the paper during her fall rotation, and the paper was accepted shortly after her joining the lab.

Postdoctoral fellow, Mike Hasse was the first author on the paper, "Morphological heterogeneity among corticogeniculate neurons in ferrets: quantification and comparison with a previous report in macaque monkeys."

Nice work Allison and Mike!!

Our brains are made up of an intricate network of neurons. Understanding the complex neuronal circuits—the connections of these neurons—is important in understanding how our brains process visual information.

Farran Briggs, a new associate professor of neuroscience and of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, studies neuronal circuits in the brain's vision system and how attention affects the brain's ability to process visual information.

Previously a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Briggs became interested in neuroscience in high school. "I took a class and just became really fascinated by the brain and how it works," she says. Today, her research on the fundamental levels of vision may provide new insight on impairments associated with attention deficit disorders.