Jay Edelman

Department of Biology
J526, Marshak Science Bldg.
The City College of New York
138th St. and Convent Ave.
New York, NY 10031
212-650-8461   fax: 212-650-8585
jedelman@ccny.cuny.edu

Education and Work:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, The City College of New York, 2002-
Research Associate, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard Univ., 1999-2002
Post Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI, NIH 1993-1999
PhD - Bioengineering, UC Berkeley / UC San Francisco 1993
BA - Neurobiology, UC Berkeley 1987

Research Interests: 

How does the brain determine where a movement goes?  Our laboratory uses behavioral and computational techniques to study how vision and cognition interact to produce movement commands.   We study the generation of saccadic eye movements, which are used to shift the eye rapidly to permit clear seeing.  The control of movements of the eyeball is much simpler than that of other movement systems, such as those controlling arm or leg movements, which need to compensate for mechanical load and have many more degrees of freedom.  This relative simplicity of the eye movement system makes it ideal for studying how vision and cognition produce movement.  Our current work focuses on three aspects of this issue: 1) How does scene-based visual memory facilitate the programming of saccades in complex, real-world visual scenes? 2) How can instruction and practice modify the vectors of reflexive saccades? 3) How do visual attention and perception influence and reflect the programming of saccades?

Teaching Interests: 

Neuroscience
Perception and Cognition
Organismic Biology
 

Select Publications:

Edelman J.A., Valenzuela N., Barton J.J.S.  (2006) Antisaccade velocity, but not latency, results from a lack of saccade visual guidance. Vision Research Vol. 46: 1411-21

Barton J.J.S, Radcliffe N, Cherkasova M.V, Edelman JA, Intriligator JM. (2006)
Information processing during face recognition: the effects of familiarity,
inversion and morphing on scanning fixations. Perception Vol. 35: 1089-1105

Barton J.J.S., Greenzang C., Hefter R., Edelman J., Manoach D.S. (2006)  Switching,
plasticity and prediction in a saccadic task-switch paradigm. Exp Brain Res Vol. 168:76-87

Edelman, J.A. and Goldberg, M.E. (2003) Saccade-related activity in the primate superior colliculus depends on the presence of local landmarks at saccade endpoint. J. of Neurophysiology  Vol. 90, 1728-36

Edelman, J.A. and Goldberg, M.E. (2002)  Effect of short-term saccade adaptation on saccades elicited by electrical stimulation in the intermediate layers of superior colliculus. J. of Neurophysiology Vol. 87, 1915-23

Edelman, J.A. and Goldberg, M.E. (2001) Dependence of saccade-related discharge in superior colliculus on visual target presence. J. of Neurophysiology, Vol. 86, 676-691

Edelman, J.A. and Keller, E.L. (1998) Dependency of motor-related activity on target configuration in the primate superior colliculus.  J. of Neurophysiology., Vol. 80, 1407-1426

Edelman, J.A. and Keller, E.L. (1996) Activity of visuomotor burst neurons in the superior colliculus accompanying express saccades. J. of Neurophysiology, Vol. 76, 908-926

Keller, E.L. and Edelman, J.A. (1994) Use of interrupted saccade paradigm to study spatial and temporal dynamics of saccadic burst cells in superior colliculus in monkey.  J.of Neurophysiology, Vol. 72, 2754-2770

Other Interests: 
Organic, inorganic, etc.

Still Other Interests:
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Department of Biology
The City College of New York
Marshak Science Building J526
Convent Avenue at 138th Street
New York, NY 10031

Phone: 212.650.6800
Fax: 212.650.8585

Email: biology@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Internet: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/biology/

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