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| Silver and Weldon demonstrating high-tech lab equipment. |
Clinton, NY-Matthew R. Silver, son of Kevin and Dianne Silver of Summit Avenue in Oradell and a rising junior at Hamilton College, received a stipend from the Dean's Summer Research Fund to study the role of the superior colliculus in behavior. His faculty advisor is Stone Professor of Psychology Douglas A. Weldon.
Silver is focusing on the superior colliculus, an area of the midbrain that is involved in the process of attention. He is measuring the activity of neurons in this brain area of rats as they engage in a learned task. The data are then analyzed to determine relationships of the cellular activity with sensory processing, bodily movements, and possible cognitive activity.
Silver, a graduate of River Dell High School, is majoring in neuroscience.
